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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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immatthewj
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Poor recordings sound gritty and raw like they were supposed to I guess.   But they still are enjoyable.   

I agree with you that oor recordings sound gritty and raw (the vibe I was getting the other night was bright, shrill and compressed) but I am not sure that they are supposed to sound that way.  But yes, I agree with this also:

Great recordings sound excellent,  so good that you get a sense of the "room" ambiance . 

 

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mapman
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They all sound the way they are supposed to sound and that is great. 

immatthewj
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I I have a lot of CDs and several SACDs,, and the SQ I hear from them ranges from poor to "I like it" to mind blowingly excellent.  

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toddalin
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immatthewj
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@toddalin  , that is not the one I have--my SACD Yellow Brick Road is the SHM single layer.  (tonight I played what would have amounted to the first of two LPs) and maybe it sounded better than the old MFSL red book/maybe it didn't.; it didn't blow me away.  However, Funeral For A Friend was thundering and penetrating and I loved that much of it.  Who did the remastering of your 30th anniversary Deluxe Edition?

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