Pro vs Non-Pro Top End

[baconbrain]

By coincidence I read an article by Hans Beekhuyzen recently and I think this applies a bit here as I feel there are very little -really- bad recordings. Of course there are many that are 'hotter' in the treble than others or horribly compressed ones with distortion, in some productions there's even added edge to voices (e.g. modern pop recordings) but if someone finds his system (including the room) is in general or too often "sibilant" I think the system itself is the problem. Of course a system should not mask/filter out highs and should still be able to portray those frequencies, it should "just do so" without distortion or pulling attention to that (or any specific) frequency range. Also one should be able to easily differentiate different qualities of recordings, when everything sounds more or less the same or dull, soft or recessed something's wrong as well.

http://thehbproject.com/en/articles/52/3...your-brain

+1 Interesting Article. Also found this quote from the same which one could also apply in regards to the Expert Pro vs. Expert discussion ..  

"The problem with the brain is that it doesn’t like loose ends; if no sensible information is available, the brain will make up ‘sensible’ information by itself. It is also very good in coming up with favorable solutions. I’ll give you an example from the past: in the eighties there was a brand that had issued the one very good cd-player after the other, ranging from very affordable to truly high end. One day they introduced a model just below their top model that sounded far from good given its price and my colleague and I were confused. We immediately started to look for what WE did wrong as where it was the player that offered poor quality. After some time we heard that an English colleague had the same player under review so we phoned him. He had equal experiences  and only than we would accept this time that brand had screwed up."