In Reply to: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." posted by E-Stat on November 28, 2016 at 19:04:25:
Maybe so but judging from the comments at that event a whole room full of audiophiles came away from that demo thinking they just heard the most magnificent sound they had ever heard, a live piano! But what they heard was in fact really crappy live piano sound.
I think audiophilia has built up this bizzarre mythology about "the absolute sound" and audio. A bizzarre mythology that has lead many audiophiles to beleive that any live acoustic music is inherently excellent sound, that it all is uniformly distinctive in nature and that it sets a singular reference by which to judge audio playback.
Me thinks it is an absurd sacred cow that most it's worshipers barely know much about.
And in the end it has audiophiles rationalizing why they willfully embrace horrible sound sometimes, because it is more "accurate" and accurcy and realism are synonymous and realism is the singular goal of audio.
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- RE: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." - Analog Scott 08:38:18 12/01/16 (17)
- RE: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." - E-Stat 10:18:43 12/01/16 (16)
- RE: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." - Analog Scott 14:40:50 12/01/16 (15)
- RE: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." - E-Stat 15:24:45 12/01/16 (14)
- RE: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." - Analog Scott 16:10:57 12/01/16 (13)
- I'm going to end - E-Stat 16:21:16 12/01/16 (12)
- I figured as much - Analog Scott 16:36:22 12/01/16 (11)
- Once you turned - E-Stat 06:33:34 12/03/16 (10)
- Still dodging the questions. Nice try - Analog Scott 09:01:37 12/03/16 (9)
- I couldn't care less about your question - E-Stat 09:42:18 12/03/16 (8)
- Then why do you stay in the conversation? - Analog Scott 10:03:46 12/03/16 (7)
- Remind you - E-Stat 10:19:29 12/03/16 (6)
- Yet another post and no discussion about the subject. I admire your commitment to avoiding the subect - Analog Scott 10:34:05 12/03/16 (5)
- Subject was over long ago! - E-Stat 10:40:54 12/03/16 (4)
- and yet you keep posting and keep avoiding it at the same time - Analog Scott 10:52:01 12/03/16 (3)
- I enjoy humor! - E-Stat 11:06:30 12/03/16 (2)
- I enjoy humor too. - Analog Scott 11:34:26 12/03/16 (1)
- RE: I enjoy humor too. - E-Stat 12:03:23 12/03/16 (0)