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In Reply to: RE: "Resolution" a typical audiophile ploy posted by Tony Lauck on September 22, 2014 at 10:23:48
that go far beyond "tweaks"
Leaving that term, and those out: that is in no way what Carcass is talking about. It is also very easy to leave out all of computer audio when discussing things like resolution, system synergy, etc.
One just needs to get specific, comparative experiences yield differing results. Compare a NAD CD player to a Moon Eclipse, in the same system and one is going to sound different and way wrong, - (given that it's a decent set of amps & speakers or even headphone amp and cans). We know this by actually going out and having those experiences. Listening to either one of those CDPs, or even a computer audio system transport with DAC through a pair of Avalon speakers with a VAC integrated is going to sound radically different than through a Sharp boombox.
Experienced people, (listeners/analysts), like Kal Rubinson, T-Bone, etc., never, ever, say the kinds of things that "theorists" do. People who have heard 100s of systems, and individual components don't say such things. Most of these "resolving" components and systems rarely sound the same, (but they sometimes do), and differences between components are heard easily without tweaks.
People who attend shows also know these things to be true.
What people prefer in a playback system has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
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My experience is with live acoustic music and the recording and playback of that. It does not extent to the never ending panoply of products being marketed to audiophiles, especially audiophiles who have lots of money and little ability to understand what they hear. My standard is live music. That is the only "state of the art" that is relevant to me. It is not necessary to go to audio shows and listen to dozens of flawed components and poorly set up systems to evaluate what one hears if one has this kind of absolute standard.
I suspect that most case of system synergy are just the fortuitous compensation of errors. If one is working in the dark out of ignorance this may seem to be "magic" but it is probably real. Unfortunately this is not something that the majority of audio salesmen or ex audio salesmen are likely to understand. (The best ones will have an intuitive understanding of the situation and wisely guide their customers.)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
That none of your described stereotypes actually exist
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
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