"Dennis Moore" wrote in message ...
Well given the state of most recorded music.
An accurate system will accurately portray the commonly
non euphonic sounding recordings. A pleasing sweet sounding
system will make some borderline recordings more pleasing
and sweet. And sweeten further those recording that are
already pleasing.

But some music is not meant to be sweet sounding. I think that another
thread Dick Pierce delivered a sensational analogy with his painting
examples. You might have a reprint of a given artist's work and it
might have a slight color cast that would need to be view filtered in
order to make the picture look proper. Now, this view-filter color
cast could be compared to the sweetening artifacts you note with some
audio systems, and with a given, slightly sub-par recording that
sweetening might make things sound OK.

However, if we assume a fixed coloration or sweetener being
*permanently* applied to either a viewing filter or to an audio
component (say, an amplifier), then whenever we look at a proper
picture or listen to a superbly recorded recording, the permanent
coloration will screw things up.

Applying any kind of non-adjustable coloration to audio equipment is a
non starter for me.

Howard Ferstler

Dennis

"Richard D Pierce" wrote in message
...
In article bpd3b.214034$cF.68012@rwcrnsc53,
Dennis Moore wrote:
Well accurate means accurate. Warts and all.
Euphonic by necessarily being less accurate must color or
alter the signal.

No, it most assuredly does not.

The dictionary definition of the term is:

eu phon ic adj. [F euphonique, fr. Gk euphonos: sweet-voiced.
musical] 1: pleasing- or sweet-sounding; ...

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.

Sorry, but this is simply not true. Again, consider the
definition:

eu phon ic adj. [F euphonique, fr. Gk euphonos: sweet-voiced.
musical] 1: pleasing- or sweet-sounding; ...

A "euphonic" system or a "euphonic" reproduction is simply
pleasing or sweet sounding. It is NO judgement whatsoever about
accuracy.

However, there ARE "euphonic distortions," those spurious
signals that were not present in the original signal that may
by "pleasing or sweet sounding." That's a different issue
altogether.

But let's not corrupt the well-understood meaning o fthe word,
please.

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