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RE: JBL 2405 and 077

Posted by seancuster71@gmail.com (P) on April 28, 2025 at 21:35:27

In Reply to: RE: JBL 2405 and 077 posted by Tre' on April 26, 2025 at 16:41:43:

Audio is crazy sometimes!!! It's crazy a CD can have different polarity's Audio engineer Steve Hoffman talks about the challenges of mastering different tracks with different polarity' these effects digital media. Vinyl does not suffer from this fate.

But how many times have you found yourself wishing the mastering on a CD would stay in polarity?

So, there are so many links in the chain it's best to ignore them and just enjoy music.

Or you will be worrying is the electric guitars pickups in polarity with the amp and is the amps speaker in polarity with the guitar pickup. Was the microphone that recorded the guitar in polarity was the microphone in polarity with the recording device? Was everything before reaching the mixing console in polarity? Guitarist pickups do not have to be in polarity with each other so using the bridge and neck pickup out of polarity with each other means the original signal from a guitar can be in and out of polarity from the start all the way through the recording process all the way to your speakers. It just becomes too much to think about and it reaches a point where it just doesn't matter. Do the ingredients matter or the taste? So, what I am trying to say is if it sounds good eat it. Or if it tastes good listen to it.

If we listed all the negative phenomena associated with the reproduction of recorded music and wrote a book talking about these phenomena, we would have no audiophile industry. People would think the whole process was so flawed they would not want to get into the hobby.

The best way to listen to music is live. The second-best way is a live recording. Funny the most popular way people listen to music is listening to studio recordings and technically studio recordings are not even close to being music. They are recordings of a drummer playing to a metronome laying down the drum track, Then the bassist comes in puts on headphones lays down the bass track, then the guitarist, vocals all do the same and then all these separately recorded tracks are mixed into something that sounds like a musical performance but technically is not a musical performance. 99% of audiophiles mainly listen to studio recordings that are not music to begin with.

The audiophile hobby is crazy start to finish sometimes it's simple and sometimes it's complex but it's never boring talking about all of its flaws. And despite all its flaws there some pretty good sounding music coming out of most people's systems.

Sometimes in reference to the audiophile hobby I wish I was ignorant. Sometimes ignorance can truly be bliss.

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