"audiophiles listen to their equipment"
That quote is misattributed to Alan Parsons, as I understand. Anyway saying there's a problem with wanting good sound is like saying an instrument designer, aiming for beautiful sound, could not possibly be a music lover and is only interested in the sound of the instruments. I.e. the sound is inseparable from the music. For me the beauty of the sound, good microdynamics, and so on, are the "doors" to the meaning of the music.
@stuartk my mistake. Cables was another thread audio listeners create a system, and they upgrade their equipment just like musicians play instruments and upgrade their instruments… It’s the same thing, I don’t know why you can’t comprehend that but it’s the same thing
the instrument is part of it for the musician just like the equipment is part of it for the listener, same thing |
@sudnh I agree. New music is always the most entertaining, and I don't need as high a quality. For example, streaming Tidal on my music server is not as high quality as playing from its SSD, but it's a way to hear much new music, so I really enjoy it. |
”psychoacoustical experience of a tri-tone interval has little to do with sonics.” If the system is incapable of reproducing it, then you are correct: there will be none to be heard. As I have said elsewhere, audio is not an end in itself: its purpose is to faithfully reproduce what the artist, with the help of the recording engineer, intended you to hear. I can’t believe how we go through this topic with seemingly infinite variations. |
I'm old so... First it was the table radio with the pretty glowing tubes. Wonderful... how does it all work? Then Ham Radio to talk with the world, and more equipment fascination. As a teen it was all about the music... loved the Do-Wop but how bad was that sound? Darn Barry Gordy left us no SQ. Then, sixty years of equipment and sound fascination at the same time. Thousands for stuff for slightly better sound? Better cables in my rig? Pretty stuff? More realistic? You bet. The best of both worlds. Now to enjoy hours at a time. My ears, my money. All good... |
