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In the Thread: My site and Your expectation from my playback.

Post Subject: Emblematic recordingPosted by Jorge on: 5/14/2011

In my experience even the most shitty system plays a certain recording very well, whenever I go to listen to a playback the owner puts those special recordings that sound great on his system, (we all have heard them endlessly on shows). I have a close friend that even hides the recordings he owns that cannot be played by his system. I used to carry around some recordings with me when I listened to systems but the were always too complicated for the system I was visiting, and when the system started to blow up the owner always got angry with me and critiziced either my recording or my bad taste in music... or both! Carmina Burana or the Polovtsian dances are almost impossible to play for most systems.
After that I decided whenever I listen to a new playback to thell the owner: surprise me, put something that sounds amazing. Few times they can. When I sort of know the system I will be visiting I do take my own emblematic recordings, it is almost always a big failure for the system.
When I a not sure I rather not take anything.
I have a close friend that has taken the time to make a selection of recordings to test a sysem, he puts on simple things first in order to evaluate how it is doing on certian frequencies and tone wise and according to that he adds more wood to the fire. Even like that he almost always gets frowns form the systems owner.

Of course it is always good to hear your own references on a system and see how they do, but I can also tell a lot about the system with the music played or availble from the owner.

I think it is a great idea to ask the owner what are his emblematc recordings and taht way you can almost be sure of what you are going to get!

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