JJZolx;319225 Wrote: > Don't know where you got your definition. Or pfareel, for that matter. > The world isn't quite so black and white and neither is music > reproduction. > > The goal is "music". What makes music enjoyable? Accuracy is too easy > a term to throw out. Does anyone want accuracy (or detail or extended > lows or extended highs or ...) at the expense of musicality? Many of > us have pursued one or the other at some point, only to loose some > measure of overall enjoyment. And I haven't met many audiophiles who > are trying to make their systems less enjoyable.
Indeed. Music reproduction is any shade of the rainbow you want it to be. Accuracy is a red herring. Even if you were in the studio when the music was mastered/mixed you wouldn't necessarily agree with the production choices being made... And as most people have no idea what that sounded like anyway, it simply doesn't matter. What does matter is that you get the necessary enjoyment from listening to your music. For me, the beauty of digital now is that it is possible to get a superbly effective source for relatively little money, neutral amps are plentiful and one can focus ones hard-earned cash on the bit that really makes the difference today - speakers and their interaction with the room. Tune to your tastes. The old "source first" hegemony that started circa 1976 was valid at the time. It was hard & expensive to get a really good domestic source then. Times have changed. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49757 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
