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Is there a possibility that our strive towards accuracy is actually counterproductive to musical engagement/enjoyment?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sarel.wagner" data-source="post: 1140292" data-attributes="member: 25509"><p>The Human factors people.</p><p></p><p>Every venue, or studio for that matter differs and sound therefore differently. Every recording engineer, mastering engineer and every one of us have different hearing. A very, very, personal and thus subjective experience for each one of us. We do not hear the same at all. That again translates into what the recording engineer's setup will be like, what gets picked and hoe it gets done. Same for the mixing process and then the mastering process. Hence my personal preference, take note preference, for recordings done as simply as possible with stereo mic pairs. Does this solve anything, in a word no.</p><p></p><p>My take on this, we can only hope our playback equipment, excluding the speakers/headphones, does not make a royal mess of the signals and reproduce them as flawlessly as possible, so I look for decent specs What, because I cannot hear any differences and no my hearing is not yet completely shot. Speaker devices is the best we got, or can get for reasonable money, including all those flaws. For a long time ago, I stopped listening for the best possible sound. I listen to the music and enjoy my systems. I have a few, nothing exotic, for the simple reason I am not of the mind that the <strong>influence of components beyond what is measurable makes any difference, to what I can perceive or hear. </strong>Pragmatic comes to mind, also value, again subjective.</p><p></p><p>If it makes that difference to you, by all means, if it is important you you to have and enjoy what is the very best, please do so. I found my peace in good quality and enjoyable as well as good looking equipment from the golden age of HiFi, to me 1960's to about 1980's. I love the quality of those builds, the designs, the fact I can mess with the equipment and the looks. Proper interface with us Humans via big knobs and buttons and readable displays, oh and VU meters, God what happened to that?</p><p></p><p>Sometimes the HiFi press emphasises, well mostly, very small differences when comparing equipment, mountains of molehills, and we on our part go chasing them thar hills. So in a word, yes the pursuit of perfection has messed up our enjoyment, so has the hunt for profits.</p><p></p><p>Groetnis</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sarel.wagner, post: 1140292, member: 25509"] The Human factors people. Every venue, or studio for that matter differs and sound therefore differently. Every recording engineer, mastering engineer and every one of us have different hearing. A very, very, personal and thus subjective experience for each one of us. We do not hear the same at all. That again translates into what the recording engineer's setup will be like, what gets picked and hoe it gets done. Same for the mixing process and then the mastering process. Hence my personal preference, take note preference, for recordings done as simply as possible with stereo mic pairs. Does this solve anything, in a word no. My take on this, we can only hope our playback equipment, excluding the speakers/headphones, does not make a royal mess of the signals and reproduce them as flawlessly as possible, so I look for decent specs What, because I cannot hear any differences and no my hearing is not yet completely shot. Speaker devices is the best we got, or can get for reasonable money, including all those flaws. For a long time ago, I stopped listening for the best possible sound. I listen to the music and enjoy my systems. I have a few, nothing exotic, for the simple reason I am not of the mind that the [B]influence of components beyond what is measurable makes any difference, to what I can perceive or hear. [/B]Pragmatic comes to mind, also value, again subjective. If it makes that difference to you, by all means, if it is important you you to have and enjoy what is the very best, please do so. I found my peace in good quality and enjoyable as well as good looking equipment from the golden age of HiFi, to me 1960's to about 1980's. I love the quality of those builds, the designs, the fact I can mess with the equipment and the looks. Proper interface with us Humans via big knobs and buttons and readable displays, oh and VU meters, God what happened to that? Sometimes the HiFi press emphasises, well mostly, very small differences when comparing equipment, mountains of molehills, and we on our part go chasing them thar hills. So in a word, yes the pursuit of perfection has messed up our enjoyment, so has the hunt for profits. Groetnis [/QUOTE]
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