Comment by ErikRogneby
14 years ago
I agree. It should be about the performance, not the sonics. There are plenty of old Motown and even Beatles recordings with distorted vocals, bad edits, etc. Your brain passes right over them because of the emotional content of the music.
That's because they focussed on the most likely end-user experience:
>While Motown shortened song to fit into radio time, the company also produced records specifically with car radio audio quality in mind. Motown recording engineers set up car speakers in the studio so that they could simulate and perfect how a song would sound emanating from a car radio
- what's the point of engineering things to a set of conditions virtually none of your target audience possesses?
http://web.wm.edu/amst/370/2005/sp3/machinery_marketing.htm
This.
I worked out a long time ago, that I enjoy listening to _music_, not HiFi gear.
My advice to people who ask how to make their system sound better? Buy some music you enjoy more…
I can enjoy a wonderful performance of a great tune played through my laptop speakers - much more that I enjoy test tones or gear-demo-tracks through sound gear worth something north of a new car…
(not that I haven't been "that guy" in my past…)
> My advice to people who ask how to make their system sound better? Buy some music you enjoy more…
Good advice, but you do need some baseline quality equipment to start with. Got my car with one speaker blown out, speakers wired semi randomly (left-right and front-rear faders don't work as they should), also powering line-in source from cigarette lighter results in funky background noise. Sounds great--when a good tune is playing and I'm able to recognize it ;-)