You have all the rigths to prefer anything that's not really the audiophile "problem" .
There are confusion"good sound" is not alway equvavilent to " faithfull reproduction " ok are we in agreement you have your preference , you migth even want tube amps with less than ideal output impedance because it makes an othervise lean speaker sound more full ( I would not do that but anyway ) you can mix all kinds of coulorfull non transparent equipment all day , enjoy :) But most irritating the audiophile press and some audiophiles runs some pretend game where they actually claim that obviusly coloured and substandard equipment designed with no healty science involved "sounds better" and is more faithfull to the input signal ,the music they want to listen to ? That's not ok IMO . If they where honest they would admitt that the output of thier little SET amp for example does not have that much in common with the input signal but they like it very much I would have nothing against that . But instead they make completely bogus claims that such equipment reproduce details that is "obscured" by more conventional equipment and that there are hidden unmeasurable kinds of distortion etc . This is very easy to disprove with a null test btw . And many not so technical audiophiles fall for this kind of argumentation everyone is not an engineer . That's basically fraud . This lack of science has gone full circle several times in audiophiledom so now it's quite possible to buy equipment just as bad as it was in the sixties but at eye watering prices . Much of the top tier stuff produces "nice" colourations that the reviewers then can describe with thier usual wine taster vocabulary . You migth also add the grooving arena for all kinds of DAC's with very unorthodox design principles that are not so transparent but make thier own sound , but are marketed as the new best thing ever . Also equipment with faithfull reproduction ie transparency have no sound if it's own . So "good sound" is a misnomer maybe that's a basic confusion we have to get over the music and artist should sound good and the recording of them likewise . But the things we use to hear them with ,not so much . unless you actually like something else like more bass or more warmth . I'm quite ok with a subset of audio equipment that's deliberately not transparent , if it's honestly marketed as such . Then the buyer can make informed decisions . Do I want to hear the recording as it is or do I have a preference for something else . People listening to club or DJ music has no problems with these concepts ,they are fully aware of that their sound system is a part of the act . Not a conduit for faithfully hear what's on the records . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102330 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
