bob wrote:
Goodness me:
http://stereophile.com/asweseeit/1107awsi/
A few tidbits:
"Audio actually used to have a goal: perfect reproduction of the sound
of real music performed in a real space. That was found difficult to
achieve, and it was abandoned when most music lovers, who almost never
heard anything except amplified music anyway, forgot what "the real
thing" had sounded like."
BIG snip!
i have the issue but hadn't read this part
of it until now. thanks for the post/ref!
at 1st read, it is disturbing coz i think
well of JGH (past and present)
imo, there's certainly more than a bit of
truth in it; which is why it's disturbing
otoh, my long term interest in hi end audio
sez to me that hearing is lower on the
totem pole than sight and feel, down there
with taste and smell
which to me is why hi-end audio is
currently riding the coattails of
multichannel-audio movies
bill