tylermunns
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| Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System? 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 th... | |
| Market Stabilization? Obviously outlandish, obviously super-dumb and clearly trolling posts are easy to ignore…you just…don’t engage them. This type of media (whether so-called ‘news’ media, podcasts, social media posts, everything) is undertaken with a dirt-simple p... | |
| Record Store Day 2024? Not my cup of tea. It’s not a celebration of vinyl or music. It’s record labels trying to fleece buyers. It’s probably 50/50 (perhaps a generous estimate) that the pressings sound any good. Usually it’s a trumped-up exploitation of the idea of “ex... | |
| Anyone listen to entire albums? I will second the reissues with added tracks. It’s terrible. So many people being exposed to albums in ways entirely different from what the artist intended upon release. They don’t know any better. They just went to a steaming service, clicked ... | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby @engineears Well said. I think a pitfall of being so attentive to the fidelity of the playback is some folks cut out of their life significant swaths of music because the recordings don’t sound like whatever some audiophile magazine told them in ... | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby Write “audiophilia nervosa” (or ‘audio nervosa’ or ‘audiophile nervosa’) into a Google search engine and then press, “search.” I don’t know how one can’t see the clear difference between these two things: a) person listens to music they like b)... | |
| Are You a Swifty? @mahgister I hear what you’re saying but it is virtually impossible to “prove” one work of art is “better” than another. I could sit here and drone on and on why a particular piece of music is “good,” with all the academic, musicological, music-... | |
| REAL MUSIC VS. SHOW MUSIC PERFORMANCE AT AUDIO SHOWS. PRESENTATION V. PERFORMANCE? WHY? It’s business. Good business knows what the customer wants and does their best to deliver it. Right or wrong, most audiophiles want to hear a certain kind of music. It sure as hell ain’t my music, but I wouldn’t expect such to be played at an au... | |
| Are You a Swifty? The thread is called, “Are You a Swifty?” The people posting here are addressing the question. Some say, “yea” some say “nay,” some say, “meh,” etc. etc. No transgression occurs, no evidence of some sort of personal flaw is shown when a com... | |
| REAL MUSIC VS. SHOW MUSIC PERFORMANCE AT AUDIO SHOWS. PRESENTATION V. PERFORMANCE? WHY? What if you played a diverse batch of songs, each in the 96/192/DSD range, and also sprinkled in a batch of stylistically divergent songs below said rate? The latter could be done with a preface of, “those were hi rez tracks, this one is only (bla... | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby @tomcy6 No, pointing out the obvious fact that there are many audiophiles who play music and, instead of just enjoying the music, sit there and over-analyze fidelity-related minutiae, wherein dismay at disappointing fidelity is often the experienc... | |
| REAL MUSIC VS. SHOW MUSIC PERFORMANCE AT AUDIO SHOWS. PRESENTATION V. PERFORMANCE? WHY? I’m sorry, but what are these “hi rez” recordings you refer to? (I understand ‘hi rez’ means high resolution) | |
| REAL MUSIC VS. SHOW MUSIC PERFORMANCE AT AUDIO SHOWS. PRESENTATION V. PERFORMANCE? WHY? One time I listened to a limited edition pressing of Reign in Blood by Slayer at the record store listening station. It sounded spectacular on the store’s mid-fi cartridge/TT/receiver/headphone system. Full, rich, accurate, clear, deep, powerful. ... | |
| Audiophilism is a hobby For those who say they don’t understanding the issue or “the angst,” it is thus: As advantageous as high audio fidelity is, the processes by which the music lover achieves such is very often deleterious to actually loving the music. It’s hard t... | |
| Are You a Swifty? This “crusty old audiophile” line is tiresome. “When an Audiogon forum poster expresses a lack of Taylor Swift fandom, they are just a crusty old audiophile harboring an unfair bias against new music.” This is a very cheap, easy, fallacious dism... |