All very true and well worded.
I would only add that the one downside to 'transparency' is that you will notice when something was mixed/recorded poorly. The speakers do not help the mixing engineer hide the bad job they did. Though, from what I understand (precious little admittedly), occasionally CDs are mixed that way on purpose to sound better to the 'masses'.
To continue the metaphor: You might have a nice clear clean window to look through, but it's still a crap shoot as to whether you end up looking at a neighbor’s sweaty, hairy man-boobs or a hot neighbor scantily clad while catching some sun. :-)
jr
Last edited by James_R; 05/25/04 10:30 PM.
