[Sound Eq]

i think seriously the moderators of this forum should look at having reference songs for us to base our opinions on, 
 
 
the moderators should establish a song selection of various qualities and genres and based on those songs we give our opinions
 
because u simply u can't give your opinion on anything if the test is conducted on songs that have differing mastering and qualities and recordings, even more difficult when people share their reviews and they listen to total different music than a reader of a review, its not enough for us to know if the review someone writes is going to work for us and be credible if I don't have that same song and same artist and quality of recording
 
I for example have albums that were mastered differently of the same artist and each sounds so different, so we should seriously look into making our reviews more reference based
 
 

 

[castleofargh]

not that it's a bad idea in principle, but I'm not sure everybody uses songs to explain differences in sound in reviews(I know I've stopped doing that for some time now).
but you still make a great point that could deserve a post it somewhere. people using songs for review should say what release of the song they used and not just the name of the song. it doesn't cost anything and could avoid some confusion when several very different versions of the song do exist.

 

[jcx]

listening SPL is also important - we hear different frequency balance of the exact same cut, same headphone depending on the average loudness we are listening at:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness
 
and "o'clock" on the volume pot is not a SPL measurement

 

[Sound Eq]

if this site does not encourage this idea maybe we should get together and make such a site where things can be test against reference files so that reviews will be more controlled
 
anyone wants to jump in and start such a project with me