It's up to the personal preference of the end listener. The remaster of Pantera's Cowboys from Hell is very bright and unlistenable on a rig that doesn't have some coloration.
I've never said that. Unfortunately, there's lots of great music out there that's poorly mastered.It's up to the personal preference of the end listener. The remaster of Pantera's Cowboys from Hell is very bright and unlistenable on a rig that doesn't have some coloration.
Didn't we used to just say it's a shi7-master if it's broken out of the box ?
But for general playback of modern masters, it sounds really weird, since the distortion is directly against the artistic intent.
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Except for headphone listeners, the room rules as far as overall sound. I have a pair of large horns from 450hz-20khz in my living room for this reason. The room is non-symetrical and imaging can be whacky with your typical high dispersion loudspeaker.
But for general playback of modern masters, it sounds really weird, since the distortion is directly against the artistic intent.
Thoughts ?Show Image(https://cutekawaiiresources.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/99.gif?w=560)
This is a bit of an easy oversimplification. Speakers can distort far more than amps, and magnitudes greater amounts of distortion are a key part of a lot of modern music (electric guitars, anyone?)
Except for headphone listeners, the room rules as far as overall sound. I have a pair of large horns from 450hz-20khz in my living room for this reason. The room is non-symetrical and imaging can be whacky with your typical high dispersion loudspeaker.
But for general playback of modern masters, it sounds really weird, since the distortion is directly against the artistic intent.
Thoughts ?Show Image(https://cutekawaiiresources.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/99.gif?w=560)
This is a bit of an easy oversimplification. Speakers can distort far more than amps, and magnitudes greater amounts of distortion are a key part of a lot of modern music (electric guitars, anyone?)
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But for general playback of modern masters, it sounds really weird, since the distortion is directly against the artistic intent.
Thoughts ?Show Image(https://cutekawaiiresources.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/99.gif?w=560)
This is a bit of an easy oversimplification. Speakers can distort far more than amps, and magnitudes greater amounts of distortion are a key part of a lot of modern music (electric guitars- was listing to Jimi Hendrix last night.)
This also assumes that all tube amps sound the same... they can be designed to sound very clean and almost sterile, the can be designed to sound like warmed over garbage.
Not sure what you are getting at here- distortion against frequency should be based on more than a simple tube vs solid state design.
But for general playback of modern masters, it sounds really weird, since the distortion is directly against the artistic intent.
Thoughts ?Show Image(https://cutekawaiiresources.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/99.gif?w=560)
This is a bit of an easy oversimplification. Speakers can distort far more than amps, and magnitudes greater amounts of distortion are a key part of a lot of modern music (electric guitars- was listing to Jimi Hendrix last night.)
This also assumes that all tube amps sound the same... they can be designed to sound very clean and almost sterile, the can be designed to sound like warmed over garbage.
That's not how distortion works, though, you can hear 1% distortion through a speaker that has 5% distortion, depending on the type of distortion and its frequency band, a higher speaker distortion does not obviate the amp's.