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RE: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano."

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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