Phil Leigh;177637 Wrote: > This has been a highly entertaining thread. Anyone who has stood on > stage with 200watts of Marshall (or whatever) through 8 12" speakers is > going to realise that we are nowhere near being able to create that > exact kind of "headrush" through a recording & domestic (or studio) > reproduction chain...however, we can get an entertaining > "approximation" to that sound. I believe that this is they key. All is > diluted, compromised artifice compared to the real thing. However, IMHO > that is totally unimportant, provided that whatever we do finally get to > hear makes us smile, cry, sing or dance. My favourite analogy here is > with any other "artform" - what was being done hundreds of years ago - > with primitive "technology" can be just as exciting or stimulating as > something painted/carved/written yesterday. If you enjoy the music, the > technology chain involved in delivering it to you becomes somewhat > irrelevant. For me a great system won't make a great track sound any > more "great" - it just lets my brain strain less to decode its > "greatness" :0)
Well, one can only take that attitude so far and still be considered an audiophile! After all, in the 1920's people danced to music played over victrolas and primitive (by our standards) radios, but very few are satisfied with that sound quality now. So let's ask this - in 100 years, will our current sound reproduction technology sound as tinny and thin as a victrola does to us now? I doubt it - I think we are much closer to the goal, whatever it is, and further progress will be less dramatic. But I could be wrong... -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32374 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
