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RE: "The live experience" There is no such thing

"what are you in audio for?"

To enjoy recordings of music. To get the best aesthetic experience from that.

"you're wasting your time."

I assure you I am not. I have had years of great pleasure from audio. How could that be a waste of time? Because *you* don't agree with my approach?

"go buy a system colored like you want it and just listen to whatever kind of music you want."

That's what I have done. That's actually what most subjectivists have done. But they have, in most cases, also wrongly convinced themselves that their choices were for "more accurate" gear when in fact it all too often was for far more colored gear. It is an inevitable mistake one makes when they conflate the subjective sense of realism with objective technical accuracy.

"And both JGH and HP did know what music sounded like. They both attended live concerts, mainly classical. And JGH did extensive recording. What's your claim to expertise?"

You can't speak for them. If they ever claimed that they knew what "THE sound of live music" was I'd call them on it because that is BS. As I have already clearly stated, there is no such singular thing as THE sound of live music. Live music has a multitude of sounds, many of which are not good. Live per se is no acid test for SQ.

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