Accuracy vs. Enjoyment

Both are high end in my view but not the highest end, good enough for me.

There are two types of accuracy:

"Accuracy #1" can only be obtained if your system is the exact same system the recording engineer or artist uses before they release the CD or LP because that is what they use to tweak their artwork. Not only the same system but the same acoustic environment as well since your room affects what you hear.

"Accuracy #2" is a system that has zero losses from distortion from source to speaker in a room that is acoustically ideal. And we know that does not exist.

That's why I vote enjoyment.

gs5556 / Both #1 & #2 above are unattainable. What's not unattainable (yet still progressive) is using live non amplified music as the accuracy goal while enjoying the results throughout the process.  

inna

What brand/model(s) of Cabling is in your System?  I did not see a Virtual Systems page.

 

Happy Listening!

That’s an old conundrum.  Can a revealing system display to many warts that were previously out of ear-sight?  I remember having a girlfriend in college who during our one and only episode of true intimacy told me that she had previously thought I was quite handsome, but up real close she was turned off by seeing the pores of my skin.

  I once had a Mytek DAC that was so revealing I felt as though it was an XRay machine, or perhaps an MRI.  It did make a few CDs sound hard to take.  I tried playing with the filter options but none really tamed it.  I think people who listen with Pro Equipment tend to have similar issues