Originally Posted by gIzzE
But when you get that accurate you have to make sure all your recordings are prestine, your sources can keep up etc. etc.
Again I would happily loose some accuracy to have a system that makes me smile with everything I throw at it. But I don't know what accurate is.

...microphones? ... Cables? ...Producer? ...There is just too much in the chain to ever reach accurate, imho.

I suppose if you look at the strick definintion of "accurate" and the variables involved, you have a point. However, I want my system to be able to do a number of things and at least create an illusion of accuracy. If I am listening to a recording such as Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting and Yefim Bronfman playing Bartok's first piano concerto or Rockmaninoff's third, I expect to feel the hall in which the recording took place. I expect to hear and sense the piano and I expect to feel the emotion. And I expect the pianoforte, at least to my ear, to sound accurate if soft or loud.

Gary


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