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Why "accuracy"?
JimC wrote:
George M. Middius wrote: Why "accuracy"? For certain Usenet poseurs, this is the question that dare not speak its name. Normals (black magic flat-earth believers) and 'borgs alike would surely accept that the purpose of an audio system is to enable us to enjoy listening to recorded music. Normals choose the pieces of a system that maximizes listening pleasure. How does praying to the god of "accuracy" help attain that end? It's really rather simple, Georgie. - Those of us who are not within your black magic-subjectivism cult enjoy listening to recorded music because we enjoy hearing the music as it was composed and/or performed. [...] What does black magic-subjectivism cult imply, Mr. Cate? What does it signify? You seems bitter on something about high-end audio in general. The purpose of a "high-fidelity" audio system is to reproduce Beethoven's works more nearly as Beethoven intended them to be performed, or to hear the Rolling Stones in a manner that reproduces their concerts more nearly as they were performed (more nearly than a small table radio, for example). [...] Mr. Cate, how does Mr. Beethoven and The Rolling Stone intended their music to be heard when played in the listening room in our home? Is there a manifest enumerating all the specific list of requirement where we can obtain these information so that we can listen to Mr. Beethoven and the Rolling Stone precisely and correctly as they intended them to be heard when performed inside our home ? It's because our listening pleasure derives from the music itself, George, not from distortion or manipulation of the music caused by our equipment. Mr. Cate, are you hinting that audiophiles who listen to music through their vinyl records derives listening pleasure from the distortion and manipulation by their equipment, and not from the music itself ? For anyone who didn't get it, the purpose of George's original post, as usual, was to put down anyone who doesn't accept his black-magic subjectivist biases. (And also, another display of his long-standing inferiority problems when confronting those who know something about the science.) It wasn't, of course, derived from an interest on his part in learning from contributors with various viewpoints. Jim |
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