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Don't really get the whole Beato phenomenon, but this one goes way beyond "not-for-me" and into "why?" territory.
@DarnWeight it is okay to evaluate a recording on its sonics, especially if you are interested in music production. There are lots of ways to listen to and appreciate music
It's a nice mix of both sets of qualities as strictly speaking most audiophile albums are acoustic, classical or jazz recordings. ie Al Schmidt recording Diana Krall, ECM label jazz, Alison Krauss's Paper Airplanes etc, Ry Cooder & vm bhatt, Sarah Jarosz
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Engineered_Album,_Classical
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Engineered_Album,_Non-Classical
Yellowman - Mister Yellowman is another of mine, pure magic
Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis
Maybe Back to Black by Amy Winehouse, a curious mix of old and new production techniques
Raindogs by Tom Waits is known as an audiophile test disc. I would probably pick another Tom Waits album but I'd have to go back and listen to them again
And yes, despite that, I do agree that we can appreciate music from different perspectives.
To be honest I very rarely listen to music on a "good" system, so I'm not particularly conscious of how great the sound/recording may be. Of course some sound noticeably good and others noticeably poor, but it's not my priority.
The songs are not brilliant, to be honest, but the whole thing just sounds so flat. They've mentioned it a couple of times on the Sea of Tranquility YouTube channel and described it well - it's not that the vocals are buried in the mix, or the guitars are too loud... somehow none of the instruments or voices stand out and the entire mix is murky and weak. I don't know how they managed that.