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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: About Omnivorenes of Playback

Post Subject: So the playback system is an extension of 'You'?Posted by Serge on: 10/22/2010

Interesting subject. I don't believe that there are amps (or systems) which are good at reproducing baroque and bad at reproducing Stockhausen. For starters, how would the amp know that it is Purcell I am sedning him via electric current? If it does know that the machine is wiser then its master (me. I sometimes don't know who composed the piece I am reproducing). So I always dismissed 'the speakers are good for rock only' statements as simplistic and wrong. If the system plays music with meaningful content in such a way that I can relate to this content then the system is good. By logical inductance I sort extended this to general terms that if a system is good at presenting the content of a good performance in classical music piece then it'd be good for any other genre of music. Just thought of a visual analogy (which may be wrong, I don't know). Imagine you are in a museum. If the lighting and wall colour and other staff around a painting is good to show the content of this painting it should be good for any other painting. The painting in question and the painting to succeed it could be classical, modern, abstract. Does it matter?
Romy is trying to offer a further inductance that since the owner of the sytem defines what is to be reproduced the system should be as omnivorent as its master is. In effect it means that 'Omnivorence' does not exist as a meaningful characteristic of a system. More: omnivorence is probably a bad thing for a system cause it indicates a certain sameness, lack of individuality. Like a generic cheese versus some highly opinionated cheese (sorry, just finished reading Jorge's post about Audio boiling point).

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