There is more HiFi in even a home studio than you think... Not more than mine. Start talking professional studios that use Genelec for tracking monitors then move to a full tuned system in an acoustically treated room, just to mix. Mastering? To the nth degree. With some graybeard who lives in a quiet room just to keep his ears good.
Kinda off base about quality control. Otherwise songwriter albums wouldn’t cost $10K or more just in studio expenses.
That’s the problem with audiophiles, their ears are better than everyone else’s, LOL
No one ever recorded music with audiophiles in mind because the market isn’t big enough to justify 92k HD audio. The only gains are in the ambience anyway. Enter Lexicon, exit audio snobs... I’d challenge you to tell me the difference between a Slingerland and a Fibes regardless of the cost of your vacuum tubes or not.
Well it all depends on whether one plugs a $5000 gold wired power cable into the equipment or not because clearly the last 5 feet of cable makes a phenomenal difference. The lows are sublime, the mids become haunting and the highs instantly clarify without becoming glassy,,,, ;)
Personally I can’t wait until they start doing M/S post processing and re-summing through an SSL just to have more expensive hardware to penis measure over.Vintage King has a used 80 channel SSL 9KJ for sale right now that would be the perfect audiophile accessory for a small listening room ;)