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deemon wrote:

But here we have an interesting question . Imagine two persons - the first man likes classic music and don't likes rock , and the second - likes both . And they tries to make their systems using this concept - "good performace for good music" . But "good music" is different for those men , of course . And imagine that they are listening rock'n'roll on the first man's system . The first man says that it plays bad .... but what will say the second man ? Is it possible for him to like the performance ? In another words - can we make an IDEAL system ?

I think you are looking a very important point of what I meant. It has nothing to do with liking or wht what the different people might consider the “good music”. I was talking about totally different things. What I meant that pop music is not suitable for assessment of sound quality of high-end audio. The classical music has it’s acoustic referent and even if it doe not then the acoustic reference of live music always have relation to cultural, biological and other states of human perception: they just evolutionary derived form there. The pop music in it’s majority does not have the direct relation to Sound, the sound as native vibration of subject in air. Our hearing learned over zillions years about sound by experiencing it and by building up semi-Pavlovian reflexes to sonic irritations. Eventually the reaction to sound we shaped into ecstatics and in musical harmonies.

The pop music is juts superstructure of this proposes, sort of uses the roots but not necessary relates to the roots. The sounds in pop music are by applying different electronics algorithms and in many instance those sound are complete surrogate of the natural acoustic vibrations. The point of it is following: I do not argue that pop music is bad or doe not has own place. I do argue that the pop music has no objective reference point that a playback system might be targeted to.

Pretend that you have an fantasy perfect playback with a devise the would allows you to adjust any imaginary characteristic of sound without any hassles.  So what would you adjust playing the “Stairways to Haven”? What would you be doing with definition of the “correct sound” if the correct sound does not exist in Realty? You would most likely tune the sound to make it more suitable with your perception of this peace. That would be perfectly fine it could not be a common objective denominator in universal playback assessment. Form another side… today is Saturday and today 500 Symphonic orchestras around the world would be tuning itself up preparing to play the evening program… Interestingly that… no single person who will be playing or who would be listening has not contrivance what Gmajor… “give to mankind hope that not everything is lost”… (a very far starched quote from Vladimir Horovotz)

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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