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In Reply to: midfi versus hifi posted by rockanroller on July 8, 2015 at 18:51:02:
... when there is always room for improvement. "Hifi" will always be a goal rather than a stopping point if your reference is the sound of live music.There is only midfi. Shades of midfi.
Once a system has been conceived the real work has only just begun, because I have not one but two major goals in mind. These two goals are necessarily intertwined, otherwise there could be no "hifi".
There's the optimization of the system itself to consider. Because we are dealing with man-made recordings transmitted via man-made gear, our systems end up having a sound of their own. This "sonic signature" must be a *listenable* one. The removal or reduction of extraneous noises (low "noise floor"), the careful electrical matching of components, and the creation of a tonal/harmonic balance that makes sense to my ears can help me meet this goal. All parts of a system must harmonize.
My second primary goal (if it can be thought of as a distinct or separate goal) is the making of a system that sounds like real music, as much as possible. It might be possible to create a system that transmits electrical signals almost too cleanly. The recording process omits, alters, or destroys some sonic information and there are some things I might try to do to help restore or simulate some of that lost information. Realizing this goal could require the creative use of room treatments, loudspeakers with certain types of radiation patterns, loudspeakers or other gear that seems to emphasize dynamics in certain ways, etc...
When I consider these goals and all that needs to be done in their service, it becomes clear to me that I will never "arrive" or completely meet these goals. "The art of record playback" abides for a reason.
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- 99.9% of all gear is "midfi"... - genungo 07:35:18 07/09/15 (0)
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