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Axel wrote:

I have hundreds of records and the one mentioned seemed the outstanding example.

I do not find the example outstanding in any way. In the same adagio there are dozens of moments that I would like to be played in a certain way. In any symphony there are hundreds and hundreds of moments like this. It is all depends what you’re looking and what you expectations from audio. If you objectives are just to play sound as is (that would be similar for a cook just to heat up food above FDA regulation and provide a meal) then it is fine. However, if you use audio as an expressive tool for your performing objectives then this would be totally different story. 

The same Komkomer Sambal might be just a pile of cucumbers and it might make a person to go by up to the next meal. However, what if the objective is not juts feed a person but to make a person just by eating this food to experience a patriotic rush for own country, sort of Chopin’s Heroic Polonaise? How we are entering a very different domain of cooking!

Sure it might be different by indifference. My annoyingly beloved Gabriel Marquez in his “Love in the Time of Cholera” gave a stunning example of it composing something like this: “her food tasted like an open window”…

The very same is with audio. Only in audio we bounded to many restrictions and in away are very limited. The complexity is to associate the squashing of those Bruckner cymbals with the fact of intermodulations.  The intermodulations are normal thing during live sound but in audio intermodulations looks like behave differently and much more destructive. The multi-channeling helps with intermodulations tremendously and makes the multi-layering of sound much “fluffier”. I am sure that cooks have the same techniques with preparing ingredients and cooking their food. I think there is nothing outstanding in there. The shaping of higher objective and recognition the methods that would serve them is what distincts high-end audio from just boring Morons who just buy mindless expensive gear and play slaved sounds.

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