Genres of music - best with Naim kit?
Posted by: Sadam on 13 September 2005
Hi there,
My listening tastes are fairly varied (if I say so myself) - practically anything will get a spin except Opera or Country/Western.
However, my tastes over the last couple of years have moved towards the ambient/IDM end of the musical spectrum, to the extent that I'm not really listening to anything with "real" instruments in it at all, mostly samples/synths and the like (Orbital, Future Sound of London, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin etc).
The hi-fi I have plays this kind of music well (I think), but I guess the main thing is resolution of detail, and being able to recreate the sounstage depth (even if it was artificially mastered).
How does this fit into people's idea of the way hi-fi should work? Obviously I also listen to pop/rock and the like, but biasing a system towards electronica in the same way some folks do for their classical/opera? Is it feasible, and does Naim kit do this better than anyone else?
Any thoughts?
Neil
My listening tastes are fairly varied (if I say so myself) - practically anything will get a spin except Opera or Country/Western.
However, my tastes over the last couple of years have moved towards the ambient/IDM end of the musical spectrum, to the extent that I'm not really listening to anything with "real" instruments in it at all, mostly samples/synths and the like (Orbital, Future Sound of London, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin etc).
The hi-fi I have plays this kind of music well (I think), but I guess the main thing is resolution of detail, and being able to recreate the sounstage depth (even if it was artificially mastered).
How does this fit into people's idea of the way hi-fi should work? Obviously I also listen to pop/rock and the like, but biasing a system towards electronica in the same way some folks do for their classical/opera? Is it feasible, and does Naim kit do this better than anyone else?
Any thoughts?
Neil
quote:Originally posted by Tam:
while of course there is no substitute for live opera (and dvd is, on the whole, pretty disappointing), a good recording can be highly satisfying and, in some cases superior.
Tam,
I don't actually dispute what you say, what I was getting at that is, to acquire the taste for Opera I believe a performance is the place to start and not a recording, afterwards I think recordings have their place. I've watched/listened to Opera on the TV, with decent sound (Nait5 on the TV now
) but I wouldn't watch 3h straight like that I'd chop it into manageable bites, after all jou don't eat a Vindaloo in one mouthful do you ?Peter