Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System?

Hi 12many & thanks for the topic...

This was my first listen to Krall's "Temptation."  It serves as a reminder to revisit Diane's catalog.  Sometimes, I find it necessary to let an artist simmer on the back burner over time, even decades.  The overall presentation is excellent, including the intro.  Despite HP embracing her records, back when, Diane simply didn't speak to me.  Not everybody is everything to everyone in our hobby, fortunately.  Then again, my sytem was quite raw back when.

The addition of my L12 Rythmik Servo Subwoofer has exposed tuneful deep bass in my little studio, even a small shudder at 20Hz.  "Temptation" sounds balanced and lovely from start to finish here.  My listening style is generally finding "that" sweet spot for bass, then set and forget.  Generally, my top shelf albums maintain consistency from start to end, all parameters of immersion into the performances.  Since the example above is a female artist, Janis Ian's "Between the Lines" has overtaken the powerful and pristinely produced "Breaking Silence" in rotation.  Ian's insights were incredible for such a tender age.  "Ancient Heart" is another interesting album from Tanita Takaram, written at age 19.  Try "Twist in My Sobriety."  Still, her vinyl was on my back burner well over a year.

The addition of the BACCH DSP provides deeper insight into recording production.  I've written here about Paul Simon's "Graceland."  There is inconsistency in the recording techniques, yet overall, I find very little disturbing.  In more commonly found genres, a deeper study of the recording labels, their recording techniques and production goals can turn up many unexpected gems, found with our uber streaming services.  Main roads, to paved side roads and off-roading to unpaved back roads is a delight.  It's so exciting to be a music lover nowadays!

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In my experience, highly resolving gear is made to make top-notch recordings and top-notch masterings shine.
The enormous amount of great music that’s been recorded over the last century devoid of those particular qualities? It may (I emphasize the may here…it is certainly not a guarantee), it may sound worse on such a system.
Now you’ve got a compromise…high-fidelity media sounds awesome, but less high-end media is now worse.
There may be a good middle-ground where those Public Enemy and Metallica recordings sound kick-ass and those Rudy Van Gelder recordings/masterings and those Deutsche Grammophon LPs sound great too with minimized compromise either way.

@12many 

I have almost everything Diana Krall has put out and I know that song very well.  The bass is not boomy, so there’s something else going on.  What speakers do you have? Are they front or back ported? What’s your room size? How far apart are your speakers? How far from the front wall are your speakers? How far from the side walls are the speakers?  How far is your listening position from the speakers?

😏....Has anyone done Krall with Krell? Just curious....
("....I know you love it, I see what you do...") 😇

@wsrrsw ....Guilty as regarded, yes....

...on all counts and accounts, finagled and otherwized. But....

Anyone who remembers Pogo, Churchy, and the CritterKrowd.....

....is about my age or preceding...*lol*

The main trick of Eq is to make it inobvious as possible but to make Your Local Version ’play’ as you’d hoped (or even had heard IRL) to manage.

I’ve had those ’Budget (don’t budge much) asaPractical) Blues’d for more than I’d preferred to live through...but have ’nuff for now...*S*

HO, and just ’hunch’ based....BACCH just reinforces the sweet dot into a line as of reported experience of the lucky ones @ the Really Big Shew.....Jury out to lunch over heard in a proper space v. hotel hostile hang....

...and a bigbuckbox with....real *Bang* v. "..well.....ok...." 

?....  I've got to show at a show....if only to prove what's feared. *LOL*

It’s hard to be a cynical optimist....but there you go to where you’ll be eventually...

Averting upwize, J

Again, the Loki Max is an astonishing EQ specifically designed for home audio and its remote makes it in a class by itself. Nothing like it, it works perfectly. Absolute Sound "product of the year"...blah blah...Don't expect it to work like a studio specific designed EQ as it's not supposed to, but having had mine for a while now I can attest to its ability to make sub par recordings sound far better and do it silently...a classy, great looking gizmo. Ya gotta have "chicken head" knobs to be able to see the knobulations from across the room.