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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: My Audio Philosophy
Post Subject: Canned meatPosted by Wojtek on: 10/22/2019
 rowuk wrote:
 Wojtek wrote:
people who are not exposed to a  possibilities of certain (SOTA) sound reproduction level  have NO IDEA what's actually achievable. To have a luxury of choosing five SOTA Trumpets from the masters is very nice indeed but assume that you're only able to get DDR quality tin crap trumpet made in Soviet republic and have no exposure whatsoever? Where that "inspiration' inside of you takes you ? This is reality of an average audio crowd. They are not so moronic or deaf actually. 


Funny enough, the west block orchestras did not make „better“ music than the east, in spite of „better“ instruments. The reason is clear - the musician makes the music, even the „lesser“ instruments are still „good enough“ in the parameters that count. I believe that this is also true for playback. We do not need the „best“ hardware for the „best playback“. The hardware has to be „good enough“ and in the hands of someone who makes it sing.

If we start to analyse the finest playbacks, what do we learn? Higher distortion in SET? uneven polar response? Inconvenient to use? Ugly?I think not. I think that we learn that there is too much that we do not understand and that technical argumentation from audiophiles has NOTHING to do with Sound. That is the problem with this thread - more hardware than common sense.

I'm not in disagreement with you at any level actually. I do believe though that the west bloc orchestras made better music, were more principled and disciplined and certainly on average made a better sound and better recordings. While referring to SOTA quality playback I meant evolved systems not the regular collection of high end A rated  components. At some point technicalities have to take a place otherwise it will all descend to a blank canvas with an "artists " signature in the corner and empty attempt to create philosophy justifying $100k price. It is a "GoodSoundclub " after all and there should be a place for a  hardware discussion . What motivates a guy to build a copy of Roman's system? His inner feeling or simply a herd driven desire for something better,not motivated by personal development but mostly by flowery prose of the site owner promising that the canned food recorded music really in essence is could be equally stimulating to real event. All  your ideas and actions related to playback , noble as they can be will eventually come down to bringing home another box. I absolutely believe that sensible person can have a very good system made of simple components. But without some knowledge of what's out there you're stuck with your ideas. I'm not that much interested in Amir's journey and his motivations but they are not that different than convoluted attempts of other posters. And I fully agree with Amir that people take Romy's and other articulate  "thinkers"audio solutions and apply it in the "copy & paste" manner with often comical results . Worse , against their inner feelings they will defend those solutions as the right ones. 
I didn't hear personally any "finest playback" in existence if it comes to classical repertoire. I heard a decent horn based pop&rock &jazz setups , spectacular in a sense . They also were spectacularly bad with Classical . 

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