The Hardest Thing To Learn

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Posted by manualblock [ 24.45.24.101 ] on August 25, 2006 at 10:03:04:

is that in the act of playing recorded music; whatever you decide to play it on if it is enjoyable then that is as good as it gets. Chasing some phanthom of perfect sound reproduction is actually in Reductio Ad Absurdum; it is a spiral that has no point. There is no perfect reproduction and the closer you get; the further away you are.
There is never-ending debates about what makes recorded music sound better; but the times you listen and are emotionally transported are so few and far between that in the end; a simple tube amp and speakers do that for you as many times as the mega-buck or endlessly tweaked system does. Probably an AM radio would also.
Tweaking and debating and designing are ends in themselves; listening is something entirely different.
We came a long way to see the wizard. "The wizard will see no one!"


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