AndyC_772;185365 Wrote: > > Similarly, I don't think anyone can say they have no credibility > because they choose to use Black Sabbath as a test track. Don't heavy > metal fans get a vote too? Personally I couldn't give a stuff how a > system sounds with jazz or classical - if it doesn't reproduce dark > electro and industrial music with clarity, depth, power and aggression > then it's no good to me. Plaintive cries about how smooth, relaxed or > refined it is will fall (metaphorically speaking) on deaf ears - > choosing music to suit the equipment is the tail wagging the dog.
Fair enough, and I didn't mean to start a war on music tastes. And, certainly, if I was into the listening the crickets in the fields, I would have chosen the gear that presents them in the best possible way. However, this is supposed to be unbiased comaprison of the high level/priced components. Everybody (who is into the music) knows how the piano, bass, human voice or any natural recordable sound sounds. So we know the criteria when it comes to judging the performance of the piece of gear. I don't know how the electric guitar in Black Sabbath (or Pink Floyd) really sounds and neither do you. So, we both can choose the gear that we like best. And likely, they would be different. But we can't credibly claim that one is better than the other only because we like it better in presenting our preffered type of music. So, my point in choosing the type of music in such tests is, since we are testing High Fidelity gear, we have to have a criterion - fidely to what. Again, no hard feelings towards metal fans :) K -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33276 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
