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In Reply to: Zu Druid placement misunderstanding posted by bonesetter2004 on April 18, 2007 at 15:03:07:
Sorry, but I think what you say is a bit strange. I thought high fidelity was precisely about the ability to faithfully and accurately reproduce what is there in the recording, which would usually call for precisely those qualities you seem to castigate (detail, which in turn generates a sense of soundstage which ideally will have depth, or at least that was the whole idea with this stereo thing they introduced in the mid-'50s). Or at least these are usually what the sound engineers making the recording would be striving for, trying in turn to as faithfully and accurately as possible capture what's there in the performance situation in the studio, concert hall, etc. Which is what we again are striving to hear reproduced as authentically as possible. And if you have attained these basic characteristics of "high fidelity," the you usually have a measure of dynamics, too, by definition.Are "musicality" and "warmth" part of some counter-hi-fi culture lexicon? These are qualities of a performance, though sometimes they can be perceived to be attributes of a sound recording, too (depending on some engineering choices). As descriptions of equipment characteristics they are basically as ambiguous and arbitrary as "cool," "awesome," whatever - characteristics that are just pointlessly subjective and too contingent on individual perception, which in turn is influenced by things like ideas, circumstances, and psychology, and represent anything but attributes that can be verified or in any meaningful sense "shown" to be there in the gear. To my experience, mushy terms like those are usually employed first and foremost as rationalizations compensating for bad measurements, or bad design, bad construction, bad materials, bad engineering job overall - the fact that it's no longer about "hi-fi" but about something else. As far as I'm concerned, you can also just drink a bottle of wine or do whatever it is that's your favorite mood-enhancer thing if you simply want to get high on some personal and probably very private sense of satisfaction and contentment. But that has nothing to do with what I thought people on fora like this are aiming at. Since when has the aim of hi-fi been anti-hi-fi?
It's a possibility that people who are rapidly unloading themselves of this product just got tired of trying to tell themselves how good they are, despite what they were hearing. But that's pure surmise on my part.
Just wondering. Or are you simply trying to be funny? Maybe I've just read one too many posting like yours to see through it.
TL
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- Sorry, what? - tlyyra 15:47:35 04/18/07 (0)
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