I'd formulate it like this: Music is essentially a transmission of ideas, and as long as these ideas get past in a sufficiently clear way, that is all that matters.
That's the reason why people can enjoy even very old and bad recordings (for todays standards), or vinyl, or bad MP3s, or that we can enjoy musical reproduction at all, given that no system in the world replaces a live performance (no sane person would claim or believe that). Most music producers accept that fact, and that frees them from the burden of having the achieve the impossible, to create a perfectly faithful reproduction. At this point there is a slight but meaningful shift in intentions: From creating something faithful to creating something pleasant and/or meaningful (or merely functional in some cases). Because of the above all of the quality related measurements like frequency response, distortion etc of a system matter less as an indication for fidelity, but more as an indication of how close the system is to the reference of ideal specs (100% flat response, 0% distortion, etc), or, if you like, a common denominator towards all equipment should converge. And yes, great specs will only tell me that I'll be getting something very similar to what the producers heard, NOT to what the original performance was like. I don't mind*, see my first paragraph ;) *That doesn't mean any system will do. I have good hearing and bad systems annoy me so that it detracts from the original idea. Best regards. -- Raptus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Raptus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1852 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32374 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
