Time for some popcorn...
It looks like a debate to me.
I'm more interested in hearing the viewpoints of people that have earned stripes in the audio industry rather than faceless hobbyists. Am I alone in this?
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In brief: nothing more than another regurgitated no decision inconsequential editorial quickly forgotten both past and present. Simply put, It’s just an anniversary revisit bake-off / shootout no “winner” decision between two selected amps, In detail... (1) There is no “ debate” here IMO, because it’s just another mag review personal opinion that cannot be applied to anything more than an isolated A-B shootout totally limited to two amps . Intuitively, there is no “right” or “ wrong”. The OP title and subject matter lead-in is edited and truncated from the full Monty, and thus incomplete to an arguable point of being misleading. I looked up the Magazine cover found at ”....https://www.stereophile.com/content/january-already-0 the mag full cover headline actually fully reads: “.... The accuracy vs musicality debate re-examined ....CAMBRIDGE vs CARY if either of these amplifiers is right ... then the other must be wrong... ”....Yes, the January 2019 issue of Stereophile is hitting newsstands, mailboxes, and tablets this week. And to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our going from a digest-sized publication to a full-sized one, we have recreated the cover of the January 1994 issue, the "musicality vs accuracy" debate as strong today as it was a quarter-century ago. The 25th anniversary edition of the same Cary tube amplifier is featured on the cover and in this issue’s review section, but instead of the solid-state Krell we had on the 1994 cover, we have the solid-state Cambridge Edge A integrated amplifier which is also reviewed in this issue...” (2) AUDIOGON already had its Jurassic era numerous repeated rehashes on this all too oft-related ( ... dare I say also “boring”) subject matter .. “Accuracy vs. musicality” https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/accuracy-vs-musicality https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/accurate-vs-musical#1186476 https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/musicality-in-a-system-what-is-that#1162099 (3) STEREOPHILE has also had its periodic redux preceding their Jan mag latest redux version. ... with no further advancements... for example https://www.stereophile.com/content/whos-right-acccuracy-or-musicality (4) Ditto on another predictable no-decision forum blurb on AUDIOKARMA https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/musicality-vs-accuracy.850033/ my takeaway There is no “debate” here ... Rather it is just another too oft-repeated rehash of the same and intuitively obvious summary that there is no “right” or “wrong”, but with another attention grabbing mag cover editorial tagline. These redux editorials are repeating either one or more of the following: * it is an opinion maker, but with a predictable disavowing potential of any bias leading to a draw, * it is ultimately also predictable to a position of being wishy-washy reconciliatory between contrary viewpoints or standpoints, * it is arguably (and hopefully) balanced in its analysis of evidence and events, and * Regardless, it is a just a magazine tagline infused to entice a reader .... manifest or otherwise, crusading in its thrust. |
Lots of different ways to get great sounding music. Enjoy them all I say! 🙂 geoffkait19,984 posts02-29-2020 2:19pmQuite the prima donna. So emotional! Whew! 😡ROFL! 😄 |
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