In article DgAWn.74007$NM4.21250@hurricane, Woody
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Hello there,

We greatly enjoyed our stay last week. We liked everything about the
place except just one thing, and that was the music system in the pub.
Theres something wrong with it. The bass just thuds relentlessly,

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The trouble is Bill that in this country 'good' reproduced music equals
bass.

....and the assumption that "bass" means a booooming resonance at some
easily audible low frequency. Nice for makers as this is a cheap and easy
way to get 'loud bass'.

I suspect that most people listening to reproduced music have never
been to a live concert - and specifically NOT a pop concert but rather
something like an orchestra, jazz, choral+organ, etc.

Alas, even 'hi fi' mags and forums these days largely tend to concentrate
on commercially recorded 'pop and rock' music not classical/acoustic music.
making it difficult to decide in many cases what on earth an 'original
sound' in natural terms might have been. Almost like limiting judgements of
displays to looking at cartoons and computer-generated images.

Good luck with getting them to do anything about it. Most people who use
systems like this blythly assume it is what "people want" since most people
don't complain or even care. Those who do (like myself) simply don't go
into such places if we can avoid them as they are too nasty to endure.

Slainte,

Jim

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