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JGH Gets Shrill
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." "Since the only measure of sound quality is that the listener likes it, that has pretty well put an end to audio advancement, because different people rarely agree about sound quality." On multichannel: "With fidelity in stagnation, spatiality was the only area of improvement left." And then there's this choice bit: "As far as the real world is concerned, high-end audio lost its credibility during the 1980s, when it flatly refused to submit to the kind of basic honesty controls (double-blind testing, for example) that had legitimized every other serious scientific endeavor since Pascal." A lengthier diatribe is apparently in the works. I never saw Stereophile in its samizdat days, so Holt to me was just an occasional byline, and I assumed he was just as cracked as the rest of them. Maybe not. bob |