I get IA when I'm reading a review of some new laptop, or set of headphones, and the reviewer not-so-casually slips in a reference to their musical taste, ostensibly in service of the review. For example, in this review:
The speakers are certainly loud -- when listening alone in my apartment, I opted to cap the volume at around 25, but probably could have gone even lower. But like so many other laptop speakers that came before it, these can sound a bit tinny, depending on your musical selections. Frank Zappa's "Son of Mr. Green Genes" and Motown songs like Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" seemed to be missing some crucial bass and drum notes. Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love" sounded better, but then again, it's a tinnier track to begin with.
Audiophile gear reviews are chock-full of this.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:48 (eight years ago)
when I was a kid scanning reviews of anything music-related I could find, I would muse long & hard on whether you had to be into the stuff tech type writers were into if you were gonna have good tech
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:57 (eight years ago)
We did rundown tests on all of our picks to confirm their approximate playing life, repeating Steely Dan’s “Aja” at an average level of 75 dB (measured at 1 meter) over and over until the power ran out.
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:22 (eight years ago)
Mutiilation's "Vampires of Black Imperial Blood" had lost none of it's burned-on-cassette-tape midrange sear, with a soundstage as tight and painful as a clogged artery.
― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 02:19 (eight years ago)
tubular bells
― just another (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 02:26 (eight years ago)
In my studio, where I paint, I have a pair of magnapan 1.7's. And, I have a pair of cone speakers. On Mark Cohn, Walking In Memphis, the 1.7's make the great piano virtually disappear. The cone speakers bring everything together in a great soundstage.
― skip, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 04:44 (eight years ago)
"With the right source (like The Tape Project’s dub of Reference Recordings’ Arnold Overtures—horrible music, great sound—or the superb Philips LP of Richard Rodney Bennett’s terrific Piano Concerto), your jaw will drop when you hear the way these relatively demure panels fill the back third of your room with precisely layered, minutely detailed, incredibly deep, wall-bustingly wide sound."
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 05:18 (eight years ago)
I prefer ball-bustingly wide sound.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 10:01 (eight years ago)
this one pops up all the time in audiophile writing and pretty much nowhere else
https://images.991.com/large_image/Jennifer+Warnes+Famous+Blue+Raincoat+The+Songs-525352.jpg
other ones that are classics:
http://images.publicradio.org/content/2012/12/05/20121205_time-out_91.jpg
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-Pb5T%2B23L.jpg
and of course
http://www.inthestudio.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/steely-dan_aja.jpg
generally also feel like they'll throw at least one classical/symphony record on there but it's less predictable as to what it will be
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:18 (eight years ago)