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In Reply to: RE: The Big Ahh (long and philosophical) posted by Bold Eagle on June 25, 2007 at 18:50:28
Bold Eagle,
I'm about as cynical a person towards the hype industry we call the hi-fi media as you are ever likely to meet.I'll include a link at the bottom of this post from a discussion we had at the Audiokarma site about the high-end not living up to the hype.
I'm not however so quick to dismiss this fellow's sentiment,as expressed in the Stereophile editorial,because some well put together systems have an ability to establish an intense emotional connection with the music,and the amount of money spent has nothing to do with it.
I agree that the connection will be there when listening to a clock-radio,if the music itself is something we find significant,but who amongst us wouldn't like to listen to the music which we connect with,on a really great system?
Once again I emphasise that,"really great system",in my mind does not equate to "really expensive system".
That search for a system which gives me a more intense emotional connection with the music has been the sole reason for my interest in this pursuit for so long.
I've got real high expectations when I go audition components/systems and I really don't think 99% of the systems I've auditioned in 30 years have given me a feeling that they've lived-up to the review-hype.They haven't swept me away with the music,yet as has been said on this thread,I can connect with a piece of music on a clock-radio even though it is obviously compromised in a "hi-fi" sense.
I've heard a handful of systems which have done it all,and I've heard the same components which were in those systems sound distinctly ordinary.So what's the secret?
Magic stones?Mpingo wood?Demagnetising the vinyl?Buying the latest mega-buck hyped product?
Or is it luck?(Whatever THAT is)
This pursuit has an element of happy coincidence or lack thereof.To me this is that which makes establishing a absolute objective standard for sonic fidelity impossible at the present.
The best we can hope for is to fluke a happy result.
There are those such a Floyd Toole who have striven very hard to quantify just what contributes to nailing down the pieces of the puzzle,but as of yet I don't think the system has been assembled,or the theory expounded,as to how to determine a fixed result which will satisfy every listener.
Until then we have our love of music and whatever means at hand to listen to it.
Blessed is the person whose system gives them that ecstatic connection.
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