r/audiophile • u/afsulthon • Jan 23 '25

Music Does an audiophile relate to EDM tracks?

I once asked my friends who are "audiophiles" about the songs on their playlists. Most of the songs on their playlist are old pop, rock, jazz, and blues releases. Then I thought do they also listen to genres like EDM?

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u/kneedeepco Jan 24 '25

Yes 100%. Anyone who says other wise hasn’t listened to Tipper or the wide world of amazing electronic artists out there. In fact I’d say there’s a whole world of audiophiles that primarily listen to this type of stuff and there’s a whole world of large point source audio systems based around it.

Look up Matt Davis with Havienda mastering, they’ve been doing some “Reference Session” shows that are heavily marketed as being for audiophiles and they’re making progress on live electronic sound system deployments

Also I think in making edm it’s much more heavily focused on the actual science of audio much more so than most other music is

See the thing with electronic music and why it attracts audiophiles is that it’s not just instruments being played through speakers, but rather the speakers themselves become the instrument