Accuracy vs. Enjoyment

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 

I don’t think that’s accuracy.  
I think that’s just a boosted high end.

We can reduce musical experiences to engineering (without any acoustics and psycho-acoustics knowledge or parameters)  or we can ask engineering to aim at musical experience using acoustics and psycho-acoustics.....

Any dac review  speaking mainly about more details is a clue about a potential failed product or a meaningless upgrade for me & my needs.

Also the dac  must serve my budget system : be it 1,000 or 100,000 bucks, not the reverse : no one will buy a 500,000 dollars dac for a 100,000 bucks system...

Better to have a 500,000 bucks acoustics dedicated room with a 10,000 bucks dac...

Acoustics + psycho-acoustics  rules audio engineering not the reverse ..