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The Biggest Mistake Audiophiles Make........

..... is underestimating the recording.

I've often discounted a recording as being "poor", only to find out later-on that it was the recording that was exceptionally linear, and my system being unable to handle it.....

It happened with those Telarc LPs, where I initially discounted the sound as "overrated" with "bloated bass"..... After some improvements, I realized I was wrong.....

It happened with a lot of other recordings since then. Most-notably Aleks Syntek's "Mundo Lite", which I originally thought was a "hot" recording (and saying so on this very site), only to find out, listening to it on Don Allen's system, that I was dead wrong.....

I've also noticed it from others with what I think are fabulous recordings. The Who "Endless Wire". Curnow playing Metheny/Mays. Flim and the BBs. Those Telarc LPs.

The best attitude an audiophile can have- It might be a bad recording, but never presume so and accept it. For too often, I later find out it's a "bad recording" because my system was simply unable to handle the recording's demanding content in a linear manner.

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