When auditioning or testing speakers, I also use music which is not well recorded or mixed; much of the music in our collection is 60s, 70s and 80s rock/pop, 50s and 60s jazz and classical recordings from the LP era or even before.
It's therefore critical for enjoyable listening that speakers let us enjoy that music. Of course, nothing has ever made my 1926 recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto by Fritz Kreisler sound good....
For example, I auditioned the Dayton RS621 speakers (RS150 mid, RS28A tweeter) and found them too revealing of recording faults; in the same session I swapped to a SB Acoustics kit with paper drivers and fabric tweeters and enjoyed them more with my test tracks.
'Lower fi' tracks included Please Please Me (Beatles); Odds and Ends (Dylan, Basement Tapes); Machine Gun (Hendrix Live LA Forum 1970 bootleg); and a 1955 recording of the Beethoven 'Emperor' Concerto by Emil Gilels.
Geoff
It's therefore critical for enjoyable listening that speakers let us enjoy that music. Of course, nothing has ever made my 1926 recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto by Fritz Kreisler sound good....
For example, I auditioned the Dayton RS621 speakers (RS150 mid, RS28A tweeter) and found them too revealing of recording faults; in the same session I swapped to a SB Acoustics kit with paper drivers and fabric tweeters and enjoyed them more with my test tracks.
'Lower fi' tracks included Please Please Me (Beatles); Odds and Ends (Dylan, Basement Tapes); Machine Gun (Hendrix Live LA Forum 1970 bootleg); and a 1955 recording of the Beethoven 'Emperor' Concerto by Emil Gilels.
Geoff
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