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In Reply to: RE: Old or new tech isn't the issue posted by Feanor on November 06, 2015 at 20:16:39
How can you know exactly what is on the media you are playing without playback equipment and how can you possibly know that the playback equipment you have is playing it back exactly as it's on the media?
It's a circular question without an answer.
You can buy a $50,000 Trinity DAC (OK maybe 50,000? Euros) and some would say it 'reveals' exactly what's really on Redbook CD's but again, how can one know?
For all I know it's all an illusion and so what?
If it puts a smile on my face as I'm listening, I'm happy.
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"How can you know exactly what is on the media you are playing...?"
One can't be certain, of course. You would have to hear with the ears of the producer listening to the proof pressing -- that isn't going to happen ever.
OTOH, it seems clear to me that the goal of very many audiophile is euphony not accuracy. To me it seems equally clear that equipment of that many use will introduce distortion.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich
But I still haven't found it on the seating chart at Davies Symphony Hall so I'm not expecting it in my listening room. =:-0
Edits: 11/08/15
... except in the moment you're hearing it live.
As a goal I want to hear the recording including all the mistakes made by the engineer and producer. 90% of sound quality is the recording, 10% the play-back equipment. The 10% can never properly compensate for the 90%.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich
It seems that you would be amazed at what can be captured on a recording and you would also be amazed about how many supposedly bad recordings are really not as bad as suspected but flaws were exaccerbated by poor playback equipment.
That being said, where do you get your 90:10 breakdown? Just pulled it out of thin air because you have a lot of recordings that sound bad with your system?
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But given that we weren't part of the recording process, how are we to judge accuracy other than going by whatever sounds the most real?
It seems like you have jumped to the conclusion that your tube preamp's presentation of depth is wrong just because it uses tubes. It could very well be that it is more revealing of what's captured in the recording in some aspects and less accurate in others.
Likewise, in Chris' review of the Yggdrasil it seems like he wants to believe that one DAC is right and the other is wrong, rather than accepting that neither is a perfect reproducer and they have different strengths and weaknesses. He's also completely wrong in describing ringing as a problem with sigma-delta DACs.
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