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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: High End Audio and musical content.
Post Subject: I could be that second person...Posted by Gregm on: 6/5/2006
...because I do listen to rock, jazz & blues. Indeed, this is ~25% of my music content.

deemon wrote:
Imagine two persons - the first man likes classic music and don't likes rock , and the second - likes both . And they tries to make their systems using this concept - "good performace for good music" . But "good music" is different for those men , of course . And imagine that they are listening rock'n'roll on the first man's system . The first man says that it plays bad .... but what will say the second man ? Is it possible for him to like the performance ?
Do you think the first person will say that because of the music -- or because of the sound. My guess is, the music, not the sound.
Even the little complexity that may be found in, say, Stairway to Heaven, can benefit from a correct reproduction with homogeneity. The second man should say it sounds good.

I believe that the other way around -- i.e. a system only referenced to simple electrical music -- would only offer good classical reproduction by chance -- not by design.

In my small experience tuning friends' systems (who listen primarily to rock & blues & jazz) we use classical (opera & symphonic) to "dial" a system, listen to components or other complete systems, etc. This includes of course, placing speakers...

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