harmonic;250827 Wrote: > > > I remember the sony top of the linn Sony cd players , the had specs no > one could compete with but the where also som of the most steril and > analytical players you could buy.
This is part of the age-old debate between the specification & measurement wonks and the critical listener folks. After many years I am inclined towards the latter view, because as I get older I realize that the science is far from perfected in a comprehensive way. There are sometimes things going on that we have not come or learned to measure, but that our god-given ears - being the most sensitive audio measuring device ever devised - can nevertheless detect (on a side note, our human organs are so incredible that the human eye can detect a single photon of light). So when some engineer tells me that their product measures audibly perfect on a 'scope, I consider it with considerable sodium chloride. I don't hear my system with a 'scope. Despite its "perfect sound forever", most CDs don't convey all the musical information that a good vinyl setup can, and we're now closing in on 2010. Nothing is ever perfect. What we strive to do in audio is play the strengths and weaknesses of the parts against each other to reach a relatively cohesive and balanced whole. -- sgmlaw ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sgmlaw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41160 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
