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RE: Why Does The Denon DL-103/103R Sound So Magical?

Posted by beach cruiser (A) on June 22, 2017 at 04:28:33

In Reply to: RE: Why Does The Denon DL-103/103R Sound So Magical? posted by flood2 on June 21, 2017 at 17:13:14:

Thanks for responding to my post as if it were of equal quality. I had second thoughts, and considered taking it down, as pointlessly argumentative, and weak. Yet, that didn't seem exactly polite , somehow, in case someone went to the trouble to actually read the thing.

Your point is well made, probably because it follows educated logic and exactly because it agrees with my understandings.

Audio reproduction is not reality, it s only an illusion of past reality. Beatlemania live! Or a museum color corrected print , some copies are better, and more functional, than others.( I have some prints, never went to Beatlemania. beatle music snob. )

It is easy to understand why distortion is so difficult to record with fidelity, and then to reproduce that copy again with the same fidelity. , Also why I could never listen to Jimmy Hendrix for very long until I got a better turntable and arm. Same recoding from my childhood, different results with different equipment, Much better hi fi and sonic effects , but the emotion conveyed is still about the same fun level . I still wanted to reach for the next record, now I can, after cleaning up the ear fatigue . I think it was the arm , for the most part. But without measurement, I can never know with certainty. Which returns to my point. Illusion, what you think you hear, verses science, where results must be reproducible to be true. .

My buddy has a fine old carved walnut wind up record player with the cabinet full of thick old recordings of Irish tenors, brought over from, "the old country" as he puts it. Not modern high fidelity, but it is full acoustic in the entire audio chain. It has no horn, the sound goes into the furniture and the sound volume is controlled by movable acoustic vent slats, open one, or all for party time.

I hear only old timey recordings when he plays it, good for historic reasons, curiosity, etc. He gets a full emotional response , never displayed with all the rock he always plays. Either that emotion is a learned response tied to family, or he can hear something I can't. Which, come to think of it, could very well be an emotional response filtering his perceptions of hearing, as seen through my impressions of sonic reality. Wow, thinking is like , hard .

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