RMAF coming right up
Got this in our email box. Kind of hard to read there… so hopefully easier here:
… and it is. For me anyway.
This whole idea that people can say “XXX mixed on XYZ equipment and therefore – how did they put it – playing the music on their equipment is ‘exactly how it was intended to be heard'” is really kind of BS. Don’t you agree?
I mean lots of music gets mixed with EmmLabs A to D equipment. Great bragging rights but IMHO the music produced with their equipment is intended to sound good. Period.
Play it back on better equipment it is going to sound… better. Period.
I mean, they mix using Genelec speakers? What then? What about old Watt Puppy 5’s? From my conversations mixing engineers use speakers that they feel comfortable with, that they can stand listening to for many hours at a time, and that they feel reveals nuances that they believe they need to hear in order to conjure the best results – i.e. it needs enough bass, for example, so they can make sure the bass is not too soft or too overwhelming.
This has nothing to do with enjoyment, or accuracy, or drug-like effects or anything that we who are playing back music are concerned about [in general. for some people making it sound like it did in the studio, no matter how good or bad, is what they want. It is like wanting the original lighting that a painting was painted with, as opposed to optimum lighting to highlight the overall viewing pleasures]
Anyway – curious to see how these sound in surround sound – all but abandoned by the audiophile world and a goodly amount of the home theater world, if the show setups and economy are any indication . I mean, Wish You Were Here *is* my 5th fave Pink Floyd album … or so [ which is one of my top 5 Rock and Roll bands, so, yeah, I like it OK :-)]
A friend heard it today and had to leave. He thought it was about 115db. I may not even try to hear it if it is going to be that loud.
Hi Bixby,
Yeah, we were playing it loud sometimes – often to try and obliterate the sound from across the hall – but also because the sound is distortion-free and it is just fun to listen to music at realistic volumes.
We did kind of mellow out over the successive days, though.
Certainly one’s favorite music at 115db sounds a LOT better than music you don’t like at 115db! 🙂 [this should be a bumper sticker or something].
Hope you stopped by – and we always respect people who ask us to turn it down at least as much as those who tell us to turn it up [although nobody did ask us t turn it down during this show that I remember]. I turned it down myself, unasked, a few times. [Neli likes it louder than I do, and I think iit is kind of cool that she does – but hopefully she doesn’t read this because then my life will that much louder around here :-)]
Thanks,
-Mike
Oh geez. I really got my wires crossed on this one. Sorry, Bixby.
Yes, MANY people told us the surround sound Wish You Were Here system there was WAY too loud. And sounded extremely bad unless one was sitting in precisely the right spot in the center somewhere. And there it was still too loud, of course.
Take care,
-Mike