Popular Post Allan F Posted March 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 5, 2020 6 hours ago, fas42 said: ...if the integrity of the chain is lifted to a high enough level, then you win everywhere: all the detail is perfectly clear, tonality is fully natural, and every recording becomes a pleasure to listen to. At the risk of repeating what many have posted on numerous occasions in different threads, the notion that any system can make every recording "a pleasure to listen to" is complete and utter nonsense. Audiophile Neuroscience and Teresa 1 1 "Relax, it's only hi-fi. There's never been a hi-fi emergency." - Roy Hall "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - William Bruce Cameron Link to comment
Popular Post Allan F Posted March 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 5, 2020 1 hour ago, fas42 said: This is a motto I use, which prevents me from "giving in" when I come across a recording which seems particularly unpleasant - now, it could be the intended consequence of the recording to be unpleasant to the ears; or the unintended consequence of very poor or unskilled mastering to make it borderline acceptable - extremely badly done compression, say - I'm presuming that the desire of the people making the recording was that at least a percentage of people hearing it wouldn't be repulsed ... but that may be a mistake, of course 😁. Neither your motto nor whether a bad recording was made intentionally or not can change the simple and irrefutable fact that no system, integrated or otherwise, can make a bad recording sound like a good recording. Any suggestion to the contrary is a mistake. 🙂 Over and out! Audiophile Neuroscience and Teresa 2 "Relax, it's only hi-fi. There's never been a hi-fi emergency." - Roy Hall "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - William Bruce Cameron Link to comment
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