If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It?

@carlos269   "... how a piano sounds on a recording depends on how it was recorded and mastered. It’s as simple as that."

Actually, I think that is a bit overly simplified. What a piano sounds like is firstly and for mostly the piano... by far the major part of it. Then the nuances are governed by  mastering. So, we are really talking about small nuances. Different people will be more sensitive to those differences... like musicians should be very sensitive to subtle differences from the real thing... audiophiles with lots of experience less so... and so on. 

Carlos : Your " ride from different audio forums " for years posting the same point of view like in this thread already was a total failure a damm disaster and you can't impede to following fall down because you have no single fact/numbers/measures that can validate all what you ask or what you posted.

Even in your thread you never validated the information when some ones of us ask for it.

Your experiences in those Audio forums already told you that you can't found out one single gentleman in true interested for your " information ".

I can say that no one cares and only here in Agon we made and make you the favor to post in reference to your posts. Come on in WBF and after over 7+ pages ,in the thread you started , and after FOUR years you received 6 posts from gentlemans where no one of them were interested . Even that you follow posting there and " talking " maybe with your self because no answers at all.

That is part of the stupidity that mentioned I? because here no one is interested.

Every one of us are listening through our room/system MUSIC as we like been in LP or digital and with out manipulation with out adding any kind of added noise/distortions.

R.

@ghdprentice ​@westcoastaudiophile   : I understand and agree with your posts. The one that no comprenhed is Carlos and I know what he could responds: you don't understand.

He thinks that because he is the owner of his words we just don't have our each words, facts, experiences, skills and knowledge levels in different MUSIC/Audio subjects.

As @devinplombier  posted " we enjoy the MUSIC " when Carlos is stil looking for/chasing how to achieve that. Go figure ¡ ¡ ¡ ? ? ? 

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,

R.

@abnerjack I have always walked to the beat of my own drum. No real agenda here other than discussing, learning and sharing knowledge of what I have learned in this hobby during the last 39 years. If you head over to HIFiHeaven forum you will see some of my more insightful threads. Hey I started on this hobby like everyone else following the yellow brick road to “The Absolute Sound” also, but along the way I wised up and realized that audiophilia as traditionally practiced, with the constant upgrades and equipment carousel, is just like Scientology. Spend more and get to a higher level only to realize that it is all a sham, for the most part. There are some very valid and technically challenging aspects of this hobby and that is what motives me to stay involved. And I do like the equipment also. Just now I’m designing a new ultimate horn based system for myself that it’s different than any of the other ones that I have designed and put together in the past, so I’m very excited about the challenges ahead and doing something in a way that I have not done before in the past. I like challenges and overcoming obstacles and this hobby lends itself to that. I also like stirring people away from needless expenditures, like bespoke acoustically engineered rooms, but not many listen as they don’t understand the technical underpinnings associated with with the dependency on source excitations on the room boundaries and how they are dynamic and not universal. But oh well I try to help. And I also do learn from others on these forums so I’m no different from most here. What gives me an uncommon vantage point is my technical background as I do understand the underlying principles and elements at play. I’ll stop here by saying I’m always looking for a smarter way of doing things and getting the results that I’m after and after I achieve them then I look for and try to find a different way to yield the same or better results. Hopefully that tells you a little about me and why I’m here. I got the audio bug when I was 14 and only a few things have taken my focus from it since then. Lastly, give HQPLAYER a try, I think that you will uncover new potential for your system by using it, it is a game changer in my view.

This one is for my Super-fan, who just can’t stop thinking and talking about me. I found and have my ice cream…….hopefully one day you will learn, wake up, smell and realize that what you have been tasting is not ice cream:

Ice Cream