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Audiophile music

Hi most audiophiles shop, listen, analyze, discuss how sounds classical and mainstream jazz in vast majority of cases.

How about some punk, noise, progressive rock, industrial, acid, experimental?
Clash, Ramones, Husker Du, Fear, Sisters of Mercy, White Stripes, Suns of Arqa, Knack, Skinny Puppy, Smiths, Morissey, Ministry, Acid Mothers Temple and other kool and noisy rock?
My collection is at or over 50% of titles above and I like noisy and creative bands.

Would you play this type of music let's say on $6-figure setup with tubes, Verdier or similar TT, MBL or similar components, Pipe Dreams or similar level speakers?

When I visited first time AudioConnection store, I brought White Stripes. After trying White Stripes in his big Vandersteen 5(back than) room, I realized that it's not the type of music for the system he demoes. I only liked Vandy 5 with chamber orchestra(amplified with Cary V12), symphony orchestra or big band.
czarivey
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hew
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What Mulveling said 1000%. I have quite a few audiophile friends and recently made the rounds listening to their systems using a variety of recordings and came to the conclusion that they had built their system to only sound good with audiophile stuff so that's all they could listen to on a regular basis. OTOH, My aim is to have a system that sound good playing both the poorly recorded and the audiophile stuff.
czarivey OP
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Raytheprinter,
I'm still tryin' but usually swap to kool stuff at or after the first track and totally forget how poorly it is recorded or how bad they place instruments and mikes because the quality of music very often defeats the recording quality. On the other hand it really takes a LOT of patience to listen to Diana Krall, Cassandra Wilson, Norah Jones indeed no matter how great they are recorded and weather it's on CD or vinyl.
Just found cheap UK RHCP "Mother's Milk" near-mint copy so LET'S HAVE FUN!
schubert
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Simple, with this type of music, a boom-box is more than adequate.
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mapman
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Careful applying generalizations about sound quality to any "genre" of music.

Yes, certain genres will tend to share certain audio parameters, but not always.

Low noise and distortion levels are ALWAYS a boon for any kind of recording.

Also getting the midrange right is ALWAYS a boon in that all recordings play in this area.

These are the common aspects of good sound that help ALL recordings sound better. Then its just a matter of what music specifically tickles one's fancy. I tend to like most everything enough to listen and enjoy at least once.

Other aspects of good sound will be more variable with various recordings. Things like dynamics, imaging, soundstage, frequency response at the extremes, etc.
martykl
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As a general rule, I tend to listen to lo-fi program material in my car or on Sonos (parties, yard time, etc). That's actually a large majority of my listening time.

When I'm in front of a good system, I tend to choose better sounding program material.

I think I just like to seize the opportunity to hear good recorded sound when I get the chance, which isn't all that often.
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