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Post by thunderhead on Jun 28, 2013 22:20:23 GMT
I don't like the 'guru' approach to hi do but I also don't like the 'cold professor' approach. Me too. That's why my reference is Live music mix (preferably unamplified) nowadays with my brain telling me what is right or less right. There is no longer such a thing as wrong but less right. No guru or techie stuff in that approach but the Truth and Nothing but the Truth. I used to read many hifi mags from Hifi News, with all the measurements as well as subjective reviews, to Absolute Sound, purely subjective. Now no longer. We surely must try our best to recreate the Live unamplified (preferably)experience for sure and no amount of objectivity can settle that for sure when guitarists are using valve amps for the "best" sound for most and studio techniques using the voice filter to make a more pleasant vocal sound against the purist approach and others. You should know better than us of all the non purist and technically "objectional" techniques (as opposed to lowest distortion and S/N in the pure technical specs) like mixer used by the sound engineers for the best sound. Surely the distortion, phase and noise will increase but the experience is in another domain all in all. I will always go for the best experience over pure best technical specs anytime. My unwaxed ears and brain tell me so.
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Post by thunderhead on Jun 28, 2013 22:25:07 GMT
I haven't heard Dave's story.... not a ghost story is it? No, no, this: Samples: Anyway Chong, in the end, it doesn't matter what you're listening on as long as you like it. Frans gets a lot of stick about being a so called, 'objectivist' but I KNOW that he listens as well. Just the same as subjectivists. Room for both tilts. What I don't like about audio though is how it seems to split people on forums. If you hear something that I don't, then great. Even if it's a cable that's 2 inches long compared to four inches. I really doesn't bother me in the slightest, but some guys seem to get a real bee in their bonnet about it. There's no magic, that's for sure and everything must have a reason for it to happen; perhaps some just aren't easily explained but one day ..... you never know. I'm enjoying Dave's True Story now. Pardon me, what Objectivity or Subjectivity. I only breath music now ........
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