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Are your systems more Plato or Aristotle?

I think mine is more on the side of Plato. I prefer a system that can communicate the essense of music rather than the substance of music.

Let's face it. With the current technology, no system in the world that can recreate a live event therefore it might as well create, let's say an alternate reality, that you may enjoy. If you can't get the real thing, there's no point of pretending. I mean you can't even be sure of your own existence.

Sweet dreams!!!
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I'm having a hard time differentiating between essence and substance. If substance is the detail, extension and faithful reproduction of music -- I would go there. If essence is the overall character of the music without substance -- i.e., the emotion and dynamics of it even if the details are missing and it has lots of midrange colorations -- sorry but that's not for me. But frankly, I'm not sure essence is possible without some pretty good level of substance nor can high levels of substance exist without conveying some solid essence.

If my interpretations are wrong, then please correct me and I'll start over. But these are not mutually exclusive concepts -- as one improves, so does the other.
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