Which genre does your kit excel with?

[plastic penguin]

Mine really excels with Soul, Disco, acoustic/unplugged and big band jazz.

Last night a Radio 2 soul programme played 'Le Freak' by Chic, cranked it up a little and it was mind-blowing. Fabulous detail, defintion and lots of gusto. Of course, I had to then put on a Chic record. Wicked. Sad.

 

[MUSICRAFT]

Hi plastic penguin

I would say that my system works well with all genre of music. A neutral and powerful reproduction which easily helps to superbly convey the feel and emotion of the sound by giving great insight into recordings.

All the best

Rick @ Musicraft

 

[Big Chris]

It could well excel with Reggae, but I'll never know!

 

[SteveR750]

Beat me too it, though I was going to suggest the sounds of mating whales....

 

[hoopsontoast]

Vocals, although at the moment inky black silence as I have no amp....

 

[matthewpiano]

I've worked hard to put a system together that works well with a wide range of music and it is one of the reasons I swapped and changed so much for so long. I can honestly say nothing disappoints me when I play it these days which is a pretty good achievement for a system based around a £350 amp. Certainly any future changes (specifically to the amp as the speakers and CD player are going nowhere) will have to be very carefully thought through.

 

[Farmitou]

A good HiFi should work with all music and sound. It should reproduce the sound exactly as it was recorded. It should produce a "You are there" sound. If it works best with only one type of music then it has failed and obviously has altered the sound. Now bad recordings.... don't get me started! You are there" sound.

 

[Deleted member 2457]

Rock sounds good on mine. :rockout:

 

[Covenanter]

My system - Marantz PM6004/CD6004/KEF Q500/AKG K701 was put together for mainly classical music - and I think it does a very fine job. What other people would think of it with other genres of music I don't know.

Chris

 

[CJSF]

Thumbs up for 'sounding right with all kinds' . . . if the system has a balance to one kind of music then it is 'unbalance' . . . If I listen to something and am disappointed, I point the finger at the recording not at my system. However, the matching to ones desire, or limited style of music must be good for the hifi retailer . . . next year that leaning is likley to be different . . . and the 'dissatisfaction merry-go-round' continues.

Having the system sounding 'the way I want it' . . . is another question all together, which of course, may inadvertently favour a particular music or feqancy band, which in turn favours a spacific music or artists style . . . 8)

Although a good hifi shop will suggest trying various types of music in a demonstration . . . and offer to choose from their own selection to demonstrate the wider options . . . does it ever happen these days?

CJSF

 

[Electro]

My system excels with all types and styles of music as long as the musicians had talent and the recording and mastering engineers did their job properly then all genres of music sound equally good IMO

 

[Paul.]

Action movies

 

[iceman16]

Mine works very well with all genre of music. But it also depends on how the music was recorded

 

[Thompsonuxb]

Mine excels at accoustic, vocal (male and female) lead music, also soul, funk, R&B or fusion - it does struggle with reggae, but in my minds memory reggea never sounds like reggea unless the bass is distorted and thumpingly stretching the travel on a woofer and the tops are over egged and splishy, on a civalised system it just sounds wrong and loses too much of its tribal energy.

it struggles with classical though, all my classical albums seem to be equalised so flat as to make the music indistinct with a narrow stage - I actually put it through the 'Hall' DSP setting on my amp which seperates it and adds something, ambiance - maybe I don't actually know what classical music really sounds like.

 

[plastic penguin]

My system doesn't disappoint with any style, but it does have a (sonic) leaning towards Disco, jazz/funk and unplugged and light rock/metal.

 

[AlmaataKZ]

I would say that it is not so much about genres but about the way recordings are done?. If you consider your system accurate (or at least consistent), the difference can come from the way the recording is made rather than the genre, right? If a band is playing a rock tune and then a folk song, the system would not start to sound different. But if the band took a different set of instruments or mikes, or moved to a different room, or the sound engineer changed the mixing...

I do find some music sounds better than other on my (and must be on another specific) system, but I attribute this to the recordings.

However, there maybe some mileage here... some genres generally do have different characteristics of music e.g. classical has very high dynamic range, so to reproduce this genre well a system needs to be capable...

 

[Alec]

All of them; I've been checking since I saw this thread.

 

[plastic penguin]

I would say that it is not so much about genres but about the way recordings are done?. If you consider your system accurate (or at least consistent), the difference can come from the way the recording is made rather than the genre, right? If a band is playing a rock tune and then a folk song, the system would not start to sound different. But if the band took a different set of instruments or mikes, or moved to a different room, or the sound engineer changed the mixing...

I do find some music sounds better than other on my (and must be on another specific) system, but I attribute this to the recordings.

However, there maybe some mileage here... some genres generally do have different characteristics of music e.g. classical has very high dynamic range, so to reproduce this genre well a system needs to be capable...

Fully subscribe to the recording aspect, but if you buy a cd, record or download an album which may not be as good as some others, you don't change the system to accommodate the poor ones.

This reverts back to my original question...

 

[John Duncan]

Which genre does your kit excel with?

Music. It's quite good at blurays as well though.

 

[plastic penguin]

Which genre does your kit excel with?

Music. It's quite good at blurays as well though.

Beat me to it - I was going to mention films later.

 

[Covenanter]

I agree with the comments about recordings. Poor recordings are really exposed by good hifi.

Chris

 

[stevebrock]

Good recordings sound absolutely fantastic on my system....everything from Norah Jones to Led Zeppelin!

Bad recordings......eek i have a very revealing system!

 

[jjbomber]

For the n-Vi it has to be Saving Private Ryan, though Debbie Does Dallas comes second! :rofl:

Supernait has to be Zeppelin. though Abba come absolutely nowhere. Bonham's drumming is just on another level.

Uniti plays anything you chuck at it, but the laptop via a Onkyo ND-S1 is blistering.

 

[plastic penguin]

Currently watching 'Hot Fuzz' on DVD and the sound is superb. Generally I find the MAs to be better with TV or films over music.

 

[BenLaw]

Which genre does your kit excel with?

Music. It's quite good at blurays as well though.

Beat me to it - I was going to mention films later.

Mine's good at horror and SF but not so good at westerns.