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In Reply to: Opinions on a different way to judge equipment and cables posted by Russ57 on August 7, 2003 at 07:08:03:
If you're evaluating for your own personal enjoyment, you should make the evaluation fun, use music that you like and are familiar with, but be careful to listen to a decent variety of recordings. I wholeheartedly agree that one of the best subjective tests of a system's transparency is the amount of sonic differences between different recordings.One of the more powerful subjective tests I regularly use is to listen to the CD my band released quite some time ago. I was present throughout the recording process, so I know what the recording was *intended* to sound like. The better my system gets, the more I think to myself, "Oh, *that's* what we were thinking when we released this!" Another facet of this test is that our CD was a fairly low budget project. As such, the recording is hardly top notch. I've found that one of the things that makes a specific recording seem like a poor recording is that it is very difficult to accurately reproduce, and deficiencies of playback systems are easily exposed. There are many recordings that I always thought were pretty crappy recordings, only to discover as my system improved that those recordings aren't nearly as bad as I had thought - I just needed a system that had less weaknesses than the average system.
-Pete
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- It depends on the goal of the eval - pburant 11:58:37 08/07/03 (1)
- "Our CD was a fairly low budget project. As such, the recording is hardly top notch." - clarkjohnsen 08:01:25 08/08/03 (0)
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