Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System?


How do you know if it is the recording or your system?

By way of example with a focus on bass, for some songs I like the amount of bass, then another song I feel like it needs more bass to hit harder, and then another song I feel like there is too much bass and it is boomy. Does that ever happen to you? I feel like I am getting the treble sorted out, but going back and forth on the bass.

Can anyone listen to the first 20 second of the song Temptation by Diana Krall from the Girl In The Other Room album and let me know if there is a bass component that is a bit much? The vocals sound good so no issue there.

Thanks.

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If somebody paid some money to produce recordings (incl. poor recordings) which is not cheap, somebody likes it's performance or sound. 

What is more important? The music or the sound. The performance of artists matters the most in reproduced music. If our audio reproduces the original sound/music, we still like many poorly recorded great performance music.

The problem is that our audio sounds very different from the original music. It is un-natural sound with lots of noise (glare, distortion) even if a'philes don't hear it. To regular ears (me, women, non-a'philes), even all world greatest $million systems (and every other systems) sound un-natural (bright glare, veil, harsh noise) which are un-listenable.

So, blame your bad sound audio systems. Not the recordings. Alex/WTA

Every track sounds good. This is a tribute to professional engineers. They captured the sound. It's up to us to extract it from the grooves/pits/tape. 

For the pros, their living depends on getting great sound. For us, it's just enjoyment. 

@tlcocks Roon has some EQ capabilities but I don't use. Weiss DAC in use has more EQ do-dads and after messing around I don't use.  BAACH for MAC (when in use) is the mother of all EQ's as it measures the room and makes many adjustments. FYI BAACH for MAC can be had for about the same price as the Ngtubeeq EQ. It's scary good.

@wsrrsw ... yeah, although I'm waiting to see if it can all good 'further into' the space we find ourselves stuck with being in.  

I've daydreamed over PS 'room occupant sensing' + auto FT room eq + 'driver *power steering* + AI....'scary' becomes immersed and follows you around...

Instead of a 'bigger boat'....."We're going to need a Qputer...."

Q = quantum, of course..... *L* ;)