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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: My Audio Philosophy
Post Subject: Do hardware solutions and sound quality related?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/25/2018
 rowuk wrote: |
| I maintain that audiophoolery tries to convince us that
there are hardware solutions for sound quality. I disagree. Hardware solutions
only feed our egos. |
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This is very complicated question,
rowuk, at least in my estimation. I do not argue that solutions feed our egos,
there is plenty of it but it does not exhaust the whole picture. I have been in
hear a strong supporter of a view that music and audio have distinctly different
objectives and means, probably it is better to say not “means” but inner-mechanism
for declaring itself. It is not that music and audio do not have arrays of
inner-penetration, for sure they do. Still, they are different animals. It is
would be similar to design treadmills and health, they for sure are connected
and one can be used to evaluate other but essentially they are very different sectors
of humans endeavor.
Now the complex thing: the
relationship between are hardware solutions for sound quality. I very much insist
that quality of hardware solutions are very directly impact sound quality and
very directly impact music consequences of that sound quality. I know that you expressed
skepticism but I think you incorrect. The
problem is not in the supposition that I am expressing but with the definition sound
quality that might be interrupted very wide. The “audiophoolery tries to
convince us that there are hardware solutions [do something] for sound quality”,
and they are absolutely correct. The key is their definition of “sound quality”.
The sound quality that industry is patronizing for many year is a direct consequence
of hardware solutions, some of them positive, some of them negative. Did you
ask yourself why for over 100 year of audio industry, in one form or another,
the industry never formulated more or less standard methodology for sound quality
evaluation and assessment? My point is that when “sound quality” has a proper formulation
in the ears (and the most important in the minds) of sound consumers then the relationship
between hardware solutions for sound quality is very direct and very unambiguous.
Unfortunately, the definition of “sound quality” as it been sponsored by audio
industry is not the sound that has any relation to musicality or to any other
human benefits … besides the “feeding our egos”.
So, are the hardware
solutions and sound quality related, yes they do. Does “sound quality” is a known
ingredient or even to say commodity in the industry he produced the hardware
solutions? Absolutely not and therefore in most of the cased the hardware
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