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Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo
Opinion incoming, you might disagree: Anyone who claims they can hear the difference on a setup that cost less than 5 grand in a room that’s properly set up is a ‘but muh cd quality’ blowhard.
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that's got so many asterisk's, you're going to need both sides of the letterhead!
compression is always most noticeable in the high end. it happens on the low end as well but the high end 'breadth' is where it is most noticeable because the track looses out on some of the spacial data we use to understand where instruments are within the recording 'room'(because it's not always a physical space).
because of that, many setups under $5k can easily show compression artifacts, based specifically on the tweeter selected. hard or revealing tweeters do this easily, even in the $20-40 (for individual components) category.
i was noticed this last night while playing some internet stations on my free-to-me 12" KLH 3-ways (something like $250-300 retail), powered with a random 15 year-old sony a/v receiver ($300-400 retail) off a bluetooth connection. their hard mylar domes showed off a lot of compression artifacts in the source material and transmit method.
i'm really not in love with those speakers (too harsh on the top end, too boomy and unrealistic on the low end), i mostly just keep them as a reminder of a misspent youth playing with a similar set in a best buy demo, cranking whatever jay z song was locked into the demo mode until the manager would come over and shoo me away...