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In Reply to: RE: "It's all about the music and the performance..." posted by Tre' on July 28, 2015 at 09:03:16:
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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Follow Ups
- Holt was mostly right about most things... - genungo 11:42:14 07/28/15 (59)
- RE: Holt was mostly right about most things... - Analog Scott 13:01:10 07/28/15 (58)
- RE: Twin fidelities - genungo 13:32:24 07/28/15 (57)
- RE: Twin fidelities - Analog Scott 14:30:12 07/28/15 (56)
- Informed Subjectivity - genungo 15:06:27 07/28/15 (55)
- RE: Informed Subjectivity - Analog Scott 15:21:52 07/28/15 (54)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - genungo 15:33:25 07/28/15 (53)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 15:47:13 07/28/15 (52)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - genungo 15:59:30 07/28/15 (51)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 17:12:07 07/28/15 (14)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - genungo 17:45:13 07/28/15 (13)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 18:40:16 07/28/15 (12)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - genungo 22:15:52 07/28/15 (10)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 22:54:57 07/28/15 (9)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Chris from Lafayette 12:24:53 07/29/15 (7)
- It's no use, Chris... - genungo 06:42:06 07/30/15 (0)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 13:08:59 07/29/15 (5)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Chris from Lafayette 19:11:12 07/29/15 (4)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 19:38:43 07/29/15 (3)
- "But accuracy for the sake of accuracy is misguided" - Chris from Lafayette 11:11:50 07/30/15 (2)
- RE: "But accuracy for the sake of accuracy is misguided" - Analog Scott 11:56:22 07/30/15 (1)
- Yup! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 16:00:51 07/30/15 (0)
- Whatever, Scott... - genungo 23:14:32 07/28/15 (0)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - A.Wayne 19:32:59 07/28/15 (0)
- Great discussion - and I hope you don't mind my jumping in - Chris from Lafayette 17:02:04 07/28/15 (35)
- RE: Great discussion - and I hope you don't mind my jumping in - Analog Scott 17:30:12 07/28/15 (33)
- RE: Great discussion - and I hope you don't mind my jumping in - Chris from Lafayette 20:19:28 07/28/15 (32)
- I think the audiophile axiom of accuracy as a goal in audio needs to be questioned - Analog Scott 20:32:51 07/28/15 (31)
- Well-said and agreed. nt - David Smith 22:33:30 07/28/15 (0)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - genungo 20:49:50 07/28/15 (29)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - Analog Scott 20:54:09 07/28/15 (28)
- To an extent, I do. - vinyl survivor 00:03:08 07/29/15 (22)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Analog Scott 05:57:34 07/29/15 (20)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - vinyl survivor 13:12:05 07/29/15 (1)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Analog Scott 16:58:54 07/29/15 (0)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Chris from Lafayette 11:25:48 07/29/15 (17)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Analog Scott 22:05:06 07/29/15 (3)
- So you don't mind piano recordings with the treble on the right and bass on the left? [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 11:15:57 07/30/15 (2)
- RE: So you don't mind piano recordings with the treble on the right and bass on the left? [nt] - Analog Scott 12:45:42 07/30/15 (1)
- OK - If that's true, then I stand corrected [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 15:38:16 07/30/15 (0)
- Bingo - vinyl survivor 21:51:10 07/29/15 (0)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Analog Scott 13:16:33 07/29/15 (11)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Tre' 19:26:33 07/29/15 (1)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Analog Scott 19:44:13 07/29/15 (0)
- Nobody wants an accurate rendering of bad sound - see my post above [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 19:15:12 07/29/15 (8)
- RE: Nobody wants an accurate rendering of bad sound - see my post above [nt] - Analog Scott 19:42:45 07/29/15 (7)
- OK - I'm going to use another word in preference to "bad" - Chris from Lafayette 11:46:18 07/30/15 (6)
- RE: OK - I'm going to use another word in preference to "bad" - Analog Scott 12:54:12 07/30/15 (5)
- What I LIKE about that Sawallisch/Philadelphia recording. . . - Chris from Lafayette 15:57:51 07/30/15 (4)
- RE: What I LIKE about that Sawallisch/Philadelphia recording. . . - Analog Scott 19:19:29 07/30/15 (3)
- I hear you, but. . . - Chris from Lafayette 00:10:51 07/31/15 (2)
- RE: I hear you, but. . . - Analog Scott 05:54:47 07/31/15 (1)
- Yes I'd seen that clip before and it's fascinating - Chris from Lafayette 11:54:54 07/31/15 (0)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - genungo 01:36:53 07/29/15 (0)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - genungo 21:50:36 07/28/15 (4)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - Analog Scott 22:05:49 07/28/15 (3)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - genungo 23:03:12 07/28/15 (2)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - Analog Scott 23:11:35 07/28/15 (1)
- Good night - genungo 00:40:38 07/29/15 (0)
- RE: Great discussion - genungo 17:28:33 07/28/15 (0)