Post by leonski on Apr 13, 2020 20:17:30 GMT -5
There's only one catch to your statement about "real live music"....
And that is simply that, with a lot of modern music, there simply is no "real live original performance".
While some classical recordings, and some "chamber recordings", are actually recordings of real live events...
With a lot of modern recordings the music doesn't exist as an entity until it comes out of the mixing panel.
Before that, it is often a bunch of separate tracks, quite possibly recorded in different places, and at different times...
And, even beyond that, many of them will be altered significantly before being placed in the complex collage that is the final album...
Arguably, if an original exists at all, it only exists in the mind of the mixing engineer... or perhaps the mind of the main artist... and those two may not even be the same.
Therefore, sometimes, we're stuck with "play it as it sits, alter it as little as possible, and what you have will be as close as possible to what it was intended to be".
I think it is important to have a good grounding in what Real and LIVE music sounds like. That's a good idea.
Second, many persons get caught up in 'reviews' and 'best'. Utter nuttiness. Reviewers ALWAYS find good stuff to say, even if they don't like something.
Ever read a Really Awful review? Few and far between.
System synergy is Far more important. Stuff works together for a common goal or it doesn't.
I also firmly believe in Long-Term system stability.
My speakers, for example? From the early-1970s forward, I've owned Lafayette (junk), Fischer (just bad) RSL (Rogers Sound Labs. Perfect JBL L100 copies) and than Magnepan. My Maggies lasted
20+ years and thru a rebuild in White Bear Lake. I 'traded' up in the line and have 1.6s now.
Similar arc of Electronics ownership to present day. I"ve owned Kenwood integrated, Lafayette receiver!, Carver Cube, Rotel (briefly) PSAudio and now Parasound. Nothing 'exotic'.
This is over a period exceeding 40 years. Have I made mistakes? Yep. Rotel power amp couldn't cut it. I wish I had bought the Original Advent Loudspeaker. (large Advent)
Music was always the first priority Sound Wise, even though I integrated my system with the TV sound back in the 80s. Nobody Knows what half of those movie effects are Supposed to sound like, anyway.
Studio stuff? Can be tracks recorded anywhere and nearly any time than melded into a final piece. You'd be right. NO POSSIBLE real performance here,
Live or perhaps 'one take' stuff? Direct to disc from THAT age was a single take of a single performance. Live albums have a charm all their own and hopefully not messed with TOO MUCH by
the various engineers involved.
ReIssues are all over the place. Added distortion and Loudness Wars artifacts ruin what were otherwise good albums.
I'm glad nobody has apparently ever messed with 'The Blues Breakers'. VERY original-type sound, just like it was recorded in somebodys garage. Wonderful
