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Essentially, yes it just means "well-recorded". But what does "well-recorded" mean? I think it means different things for different styles of music. For example, for classical music I'd want to hear a realistic-sounding ensemble (orchestra, quartet, piano, whatever), with a good stereo image and the right amount of room in the sound. In fact, I'd want something similar for acoustic jazz too. "Pop/rock" music (for want of a better term) is a bit different. For that, I'd be listening for a good frequency balance, no unwanted boom in the bass or harsh highs.
At the end of the day though, it's the performance that counts. For example, this is my favourite performance of Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto:
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Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
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Unfortunately on Google Play Music once you cancel it won’t let you access any music or playlists...unlike Spotify.
Return of the Mack
Notorious BIG Hypnotize
That stuff sounds noticeably better on better systems and has frequency extremes
Then something acoustic with lots of detail, like Miles Ahead
Then I put my slippers on
I'm lucky enough to have some PMC towers these days
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i can add them to my playlist. What PMC model do you have?
https://www.whathifi.com/pmc/pb1i/review
Roger waters - Pros and cons - or Amused to death. yes the whole album
Talk talk - happiness is esay
Springsteen - Thunder Road, Live
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
Bee Gees - Jive Talking
Loads more but that will do it, I now run active AVI speakers just a little slice of heaven
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2 or Songs From Distant Earth if you really want to test the limits of frequency response...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I also use Black Cow by Steely Dan, Grace by Devin Townsend and random Aphex Twin tunes.
Steel Panther is very well mixed.
I also use Volbeat ‘Counting Bodies’ to test midrange.
The guitars are a bit sharp and high in the mix for me and this is revealed on speakers with great midrange, like my Kii Three’s.
I don’t notice it on my other monitors, like BM6a’s or B&W 685’s which leads me to believe that song was mixed on speakers that had a bit of a reduced midrange.
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Thats the first one I go for these days.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein