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Any impressions on the EMM Labs CDSA-SE CD/SACD player?
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:12:50 -0800, bob wrote
(in article ): On Nov 18, 10:36 pm, Sonnova wrote: Because I'm making a very specific point. The point is (as I have said) given that LP is fraught with problems, both mechanical and electrical, how come the medium can often elicit positive emotional responses from listeners, while the CD of the same performance does not? Euphonic distortion, probably mixed in with a bit of nostalgia. Agreed (except for the nostalgia bit. I personally care not for nostalgia). My point is that if euphonic distortion makes a recording sound more real, then I'm all for it! Obviously the CD is more accurate - in every way- than is the LP, but the LP sounds more alive, more palpably THERE than the CD.Not that this is always the case, but it is the case often enough to raise in my mind the question of the importance of "accuracy" in the recording an playback of music. If we assume that the CD is more accurate, but the LP -with all of it's flaws- SOUNDS better, then which approach is better? Depends on what your goal is. If your goal is, "what sounds best to me" or "what evokes for me a sense of live music" or "what gives me goose bumps" then whether it's technically accurate or not is beside the point. Enjoy your euphonic distortion, if that's what gets you off. Just be careful not to make technical claims about the superiority of the gear that produces those distortions. I'm not. The whole point of my participation in this discussion is that if we can't make an audio system convey the sense of realism associated with live music by making each link in the chain as perfectly squeeky-clean as is technologically possible, then perhaps that kind of accuracy is not all that important to the reproduction of music. bob |
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