MotorToad
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Indeed. Another of my favorite all-time recordings has fallen prey to Martin & Logan (what I've named the left and right speakers, respectively
). Several of my rock and grunge recordings have fallen down my scaled-by-pleasure music rack because they're just crappy studio work and are fatiguing to listen to. [A few surprises have surfaced, too, like Green Day's Dookie and Poe's Hello, both of which sound pretty stinking good.]
I've been listening to Vivaldi's Four Seasons performed by the Academy of Ancient Music since 1987 (410 126-2 L'Oiseau-Lyre), and it's been my favorite classical performance recording because it sounds like (because it is) a group of people playing music and not like a bunch of studio tracks plugged together. I've listened to it start to end hundreds of times on headphones and on my pre-ML Mirage M-490s. I spent countless hours on a submarine listening to it on some decent Sony headphones (around $100 at the time) and you can hear the people that are playing the music, specifically things like when a chair gets moved (you can plainly hear that it's a folding metal chair with plastic feet like what you see in churches or auditoriums) or someone coughs, muted in the distance. But also it sounds like an awesome performance on period instruments.
What I never heard is that it's an outside recording. I suppose that's why I've always liked the piece so much... no room acoustics. However, played now it sounds like a freaking train in the living room because the mic is picking up wind noise at very low frequency. Even with the bass turned all the way down it's unbearable.
Crappitty-crap-crap. Damn this fidelity and all its bastard truthfulness.
). Several of my rock and grunge recordings have fallen down my scaled-by-pleasure music rack because they're just crappy studio work and are fatiguing to listen to. [A few surprises have surfaced, too, like Green Day's Dookie and Poe's Hello, both of which sound pretty stinking good.]I've been listening to Vivaldi's Four Seasons performed by the Academy of Ancient Music since 1987 (410 126-2 L'Oiseau-Lyre), and it's been my favorite classical performance recording because it sounds like (because it is) a group of people playing music and not like a bunch of studio tracks plugged together. I've listened to it start to end hundreds of times on headphones and on my pre-ML Mirage M-490s. I spent countless hours on a submarine listening to it on some decent Sony headphones (around $100 at the time) and you can hear the people that are playing the music, specifically things like when a chair gets moved (you can plainly hear that it's a folding metal chair with plastic feet like what you see in churches or auditoriums) or someone coughs, muted in the distance. But also it sounds like an awesome performance on period instruments.
What I never heard is that it's an outside recording. I suppose that's why I've always liked the piece so much... no room acoustics. However, played now it sounds like a freaking train in the living room because the mic is picking up wind noise at very low frequency. Even with the bass turned all the way down it's unbearable.
Crappitty-crap-crap. Damn this fidelity and all its bastard truthfulness.
