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In Reply to: one more thing posted by Goober58 on December 11, 2014 at 22:50:01:
You said (of the "good" system), "Bad recordings will sound better and good recordings will sound better too..." Sorry if I confused that with a "good" stereo having the ability to making all recordings sound good somehow.A system that can make bad recordings sound better might please us but that does not mean it is a good system. A $25 tabletop radio might make certain recordings sound "better", but that does not mean that the tabletop radio is a "good system". It is possible for a system to add or detract things in certain situations but these things would only degrade or destroy performance in other, presumably better situations.
I don't believe that any system can make ALL recordings, no matter how good or how bad, sound "good"... or "better". But, that's just my opinion.
So basically, I believe that truly good systems are judged by how cleanly they can translate truly good recordings, not by how much fairy dust they can sprinkle on bad ones. Fairy dust can do a truly good recording no further good because the good recording already has all that it needs to be good. Fairy dust might be a useful thing (and possibly even a "good" thing) only when all, or most, of our recordings are badly engineered ones. I agree that our systems should *sound good*, TO US, with the majority of the recordings that we like to play. But if it turns out that the system that makes bad recordings sounds better is a $25 tabletop radio, should we claim that the system is a good one? If our system pleases us it does not necessarily mean that it is a good system, it only means that it "sounds good" - to us. IMO.
Anyway, I'm glad that you are happy with the performance of your system. That's all that really matters because, "the rest is just leather and prunella" (as Alexander Pope once said).
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Follow Ups
- RE: one more thing - genungo 03:27:14 12/12/14 (5)
- RE: one more thing - Goober58 09:59:13 12/12/14 (4)
- RE: one more thing - genungo 10:11:20 12/12/14 (3)
- Sorry - Goober58 12:30:27 12/12/14 (2)
- Don't rock the boat, baby - genungo 13:06:03 12/12/14 (1)
- LOL! - Inmate51 14:40:33 12/12/14 (0)
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