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Holt was mostly right about most things...

Hifi music reproduction has two major goals to meet, and one major hurdle to cross:

"Fidelity to the Recording" and "Fidelity to the Music from which the recording was made" are the two major goals that guide us in the making of gear fit for a hifi system. "Realization" - or compatibility with home acoustic environments - is akin to the final hurdle seen on the horizon after the first two major goals have been met or provided for. It is the final piece in the hifi puzzle.

Modern audiophiles pick and choose gear and adjust their systems with all three of these things in mind - or at least they try to. Part of the reason they do this is because recordists and/or recording engineers always produce "art" (whether they intend to or not), and modern audiophiles have decided that they are obliged to respond in kind. The *art* in every recording must not only be heard, but also understood. And sometimes it takes a bit of system tweaking to make the sonic art in a recording more understandable, I would opine.

Hifi music reproduction has more in common with a realistic oil painting than it does with a photograph. Hifi is a "framed" and (in most cases) *miniaturized* re-enactment of a spectacular live event, but one that effectively invites "suspension of disbelief". Hifi music reproduction is related to the sound of live music, but it is never quite the same.

Our systems, therefore, must be good pitchers as well as good catchers.

IMO.



Edits: 07/28/15 07/28/15 07/28/15

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