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wijnandsj t1_iy7zj9r wrote

ok, just fired up spotify.

So strange..

nice guitar, slightly muffled. Really recessed vocals, like the singer is standing just outside the studio. Not much texture in the drums

Inspire

Good guitar, again. Again slightly muffled. Drums sound really artificial.

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Symmetry

Guitar and a drum computer or something

All falls apart.

Same thing, good guitar but slightly muffled, mediocre drum recording.

I don't see it. There's nothign at all special about the mastering here.

Black lab, a group roughly in this genre, has much better mastering IMO

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wijnandsj t1_iy7lsgg wrote

Their dynamic range figures are awful. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/188691

So can you elaborate?

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klogg4 t1_iy7mrh4 wrote

The interesting counter-example here is Muse - Origin of Symmetry XX RemiXX. DR4, but boy sounds good.

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Egoexpo t1_iy7rlqx wrote

When evaluating headphones, what is most important is activity in different frequency ranges; in the Harman tests, pop and classical music are the best for testing headphones. Polyphia is very similar to pop songs in terms of activity at different frequencies. The dynamic range is not that important for this specific activity.

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wijnandsj t1_iy7ujt6 wrote

Hence me asking instead of dismissing it

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