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In Reply to: RE: "I don't care about accuracy" posted by Analog Scott on July 28, 2015 at 23:11:35:
I think that have "really" answered all of your questions so far, several times over perhaps. Everything has been clearly implied if not stated outright, over and over again.That said, everything we do, every choice we make, etc.., *INVOLVES* personal beliefs or aesthetics, of course. But you almost seem to be inordinately hung up on this idea of *free* or disembodied aesthetics. Anyone who believes that a good recording is not a reference (and therefore deserving of honor and respect in it's own right) is simply not into "hifi".
The "fidelity" part of "hi-fidelity" is supposed to refer to the existence of some definite and real things, as Holt points out. I agree with most of what Holt says here, and any disagreements I might have with him are basically insignificant ones, IMO. He and I basically blood brothers, I think, although he himself might have been hesitant to define our spiritual relationship as such when he was alive.
I think that aesthetics normally grow out of relatively "objective" sensual observations. We "know" or remember what real live music sounds like to us once we listen to it. And I dare say that most of us build our systems in honor of that which we recognize as "the sound of music" on decent recordings.
I think that, with the help of a good system, it is possible to hear good recordings pretty much as they were meant to be heard. Maybe we'll never know EXACTLY how a good recording is supposed to sound, but we can get *very close* to that goal with the help of research, practice, and patience.
If you set up a good pair of speakers in an appropriately sized room the way they are intended to be set up and you play a good recording, your chances of hearing that recording as it was meant to be heard are pretty high, I'd say. But, following such a procedure would involve some *trust* on your part, and I feel that you probably mistrust almost anything GIVEN at this point in your audiophile career.
All that remains to be done (after we have taken steps to ensure that good recordings can be heard pretty much as they were meant to be heard) is some final tweaking of the system so that it sounds *listenable* as well as "accurate". Doing this does not mean that something very close to "objective listening" hasn't been accomplished on my part, though.
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