darrenyeats wrote: > I wonder if the "dynamically compressed recordings" as a reason for the > fatigue was a bit of an excuse. IME extreme dynamic compression does indeed render some music unlistenable on good quality systems. It seems to me that revealing systems do exactly that: they *reveal* how bad the mastering is.
Examples: Some years ago I noticed that Coldplay's X&Y sounded pretty ropey on our main system, but acceptable on an iPod. And recently my wife bought Night Visions by Imagine Dragons - it sounds absolutely *horrendous* on a decent system, but when I put it on my laptop to investigate why, I noticed that it sounded much less objectionable via cheap headphones through the laptop's on-board sound. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100962 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
