[KH]

On 7/30/2013 3:52 PM, Audio_Empire wrote:
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First of all. If you don't ever listen to real, live, amplified music,

I assume you meant "un-amplified"?


Pop music was almost never mentioned
and jazz only rarely. Now it's completely reversed. Every review I
read tells me how The Who, or Cat Stevens, or Rod Stewart' latest
album (along with a myriad of more recent groups and soloists that I
have never heard of at all)

This would appear to say volumes about your knowledge of pop music.

If the music doesn't exist in real space, then
the accuracy of the playback totally becomes a matter personal tastes
and as a means of communicating opinions from one group of people to
another, it's arbitrary, and clearly NOT useful.

Personal tastes, irrespective of listening tastes, are arbitrary, and
NOT useful to others relative to what they may like or find "accurate".

The results obtained from such a test have
absolutely no bearing on how the paving machine will perform when
paving roads with hot asphalt! Likewise a speaker review (for
instance) using studio recorded pop music bears little or no relation
to how that speaker system might perform with REAL, live acoustical
music and anybody who thinks that it does, is deluded.

It bears directly on how a system will sound with the referenced system
- in the opinion of the reviewer. How is that less useful than a review
of how a speaker system sounds with music that the reader couldn't care
less about, and won't be listening too?

Frustrating!

They are entertainment, IMO, and nothing more, no matter what the
musical selections are.

Keith