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Default What is so high end about high end?

ludovic mirabel wrote:
chung wrote in message .net...
Dennis Moore wrote:
Well the dbt's seem impotent in matters of emotional realism as
discussed in the faq to this group. Yet everyone with another
idea get beat over the head endlessly by the dbt results
They have their place, and I don't mind some of them.
But something is amiss. Too many components long term
will give satisfaction that others supposedly sounding the
same don't. Or too many that supposedly are more accurate
are less enjoyable to listen to long term. I have read all the
arguments about why this is so, and don't with to go thru it
again.
Those touting the dbt route as the only rational route to take
consider there is nothing real to investigate otherwise.


Please don't erect a strawman, if you really want a genuine discussion.
No one said that the "dbt route is the only rational route to consider".
You can say you like a certain cable or a certain amp for whatever
reason. Accuracy is not the only factor in choosing equipment.

What I really don't understand is that there are many places where
subjectivity is the rule. Why try to make this newsgroup another one?
Yet some of the better of that equipment seems to satisfy in ways

the
supposedly accurate just as good equipment often doesn't.

Have you heard of "euphonic distortion"?


Yes, I'm sure he heard the name. I did too.



Interestingly, there's a letter in the new issue of Stereophile from
J. Gordon Holt himself, blasting Stereophile and the audio review industry
generally for abandoning evaluation of and the search for *accuracy*
in favor of touting what he calls *euphonic colorations*.



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-S.