Accession finally here

I think this "better" or "different" phenomena goes deeper. By its very nature a recorded musical performance is necessarily different from the live event, and in the case of studio recordings laid down track by track where no live event exists we have to relate the sound to our expectations of it: how low should the bass go, that ringing on the cymbals - is it really natural (whatever that is - and how many of us can say we've heard a cymbal closeup as a reference?) ? Any number of processing stages will have been used to tailor the music (gating, reverb, compression).

Bob, I wholeheartedly agree.
The Audiofool industry summed up in 3 sentences.
Some truly erudite observations.

Ian

Its really disappointing to read in this forum 'audiofool' characterisations for people. Its sad.

I would certainly agree with Bob, Savas. There are also those that are obsessed by the "bling" and meaningless specifications/features used by some of manufacturers rather than the sound. Are these people perhaps audiofools rather than audiophiles (whatever that may mean).
I think it's akin to those who boast about how powerful their cars are, they can be seen at the front of the traffic light queue every time.
I would hasten to add that I don't believe such people can be found here, we're far too "down to earth".

Ian


Edited by BackinBlack - 08 Mar 2018 at 4:17pm