Well accurate means accurate. Warts and all.
Euphonic by necessarily being less accurate must color or
alter the signal. Often this covers up some of the less than
beautiful aspects of recordings. Accurate and euphonic
are therefore by definition different. Euphonic necessarily
being inaccurate. And the inaccuracies chosen to sound
better according to someone's preference.

For instance if the preference is for warm, round sound.
Then a less warm, less round accurate sound will be found
less desirable by those with a preference for warm sound.

Dennis

"Wylie Williams" wrote in message
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John La Grou of Millennia Media, Inc. wrote
(p.s., I also found it amusing that an engineer looking for a
"natural" sound selected a "warm" micamp. Not that the end result
wasn't musically rich and beautiful, but "euphonic" and "accurate" are
usually mutually exclusive audio ideas.)

I have heard essentially that statement so many times from so many
sources.
What is the conflict with euphonic (sounding good) and accurate, anyway?
What is our definition of "accurate" that makes it conflict with
"enjoyable"??

Wylie Williams