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RE: One thing to point out...

I have no interest in filling up my limited living space with redudent components. I can deal with an old system and its replacement, but not various mix and match components. Also, having many choices means that I can't just listen to music without first finding some components that make a recording sound good. IMO the result of this approach is constant fiddling and worrying about the technology, rather than just enjoying the music. I also use my system for remastering old analog recordings and without a constant reference of how these recordings sound vs. the range of recordings on the marketplace I have no good way of positioning the sound of these recordings in such a way that they stand a chance of sounding good on a variety of systems. Here the problem is the same as just listening: one's mental confusion about the system leaves little space "in one's head" to think about important things. Similar arguments pretty much cover tube equipment that drifts, has to be rebiased periodically, tube rolling, or many other things associated with retro audio technology. Just IMO, as I realize that some people like to fiddle with equipment. I don't. I like to listen to music or make (i.e. fiddle) with recordings.

Measurements can work when a complete set has been developed that adequately covers the known and unknown aspects of a given technology's limitations and the known and unknown aspects of psycho-acoustics. They are a useful tool for dealing with known factors, but usually useless for dealing with unknown factors. After some of these unknowns become known then it is possible to come up with new measurements that can capture this new knowledge, but this may take years or even decades. The general rule is that new technology creates new unknowns with new distortions that can be heard but not captured by existing measurements. Later, one understands these new distortions and how to measure them as well as how to relate these measurements to what some people can hear. Still later one may get products that sound better than the old technology. Still later, if we're lucky, manufacturers' spec sheets and reviewer's product reviews include these new measurements. In this paragraph the key words are "unknown" and "lucky".




Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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