darrenyeats wrote: > This is a difficult matter. 99% of modern music has the vocal recorded > with close-mic and compressors, probably in a vocal booth with effects > added. It's incredible if you think about it. > > I can certainly understand people getting frustrated with accurate > equipment because how can this be reminiscent of real voices in a real > room without a bit of smear and colour? > > This is why some (not I) go for the 1% audiophile recordings. > > I like my current system more than all my previous ones, for me the best > recordings for voice SQ are classical choral works. Mainly because they > don't shove microphones down the singers' throats. Close-mic in a booth > is a totally unnatural perspective and it may even be as damaging to > realism as dynamic compression. That's saying something. > Darren > > Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk 2
You fail to realize that many of the audiophile recordings you do not go for often have the microphone (phallus) shoved down the (female) singers throat. I think that the fantasy image this conjures up is the only reason middle aged, male audiophiles listen to some of this dreck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97105 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
