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In the Thread: Accuracy vs. Musicality (and YMMV)
Post Subject: Good Electricity vs. TopologyPosted by Paul S on: 8/25/2024
How great it is to revel in Music during good electricity
or DPoLS! These conditions really allow one to “listen past” the system, which
is a Joy unto itself. But neither good electricity nor DPoLS is a substitute
for “correct topology”, in terms of range, power, or any number of “variables”
one might summon to parse the sound of music from hi-fi. Ironically, both good
electricity and DPoLS remind us of what we “ought to be aiming for” from hi-fi,
which is to say, Music. And this takes us back to taste, and how much “Live
Sounding” playback we actually want to hear from a hi-fi set-up. For me, and
speaking for myself, neither DPoLS nor good electricity sufficiently scales up
Bruckner from a small system. Likewise, the “wrong” system of any size does not
help me make Musical sense of Bruckner. Which is only to say – again – that “topology
matters” and the effects of topology on sound and Music are not nulled by good
electricity or DPoLS. And then there is the matter of sources. What are we
listening to in the first place? I think “topology” as we use the term plays in
to the sound(s) and music from sources that we start with, as well. I have
fallen so far off the pace with streaming that I have no idea what “streaming people”
are “working with” these days, especially when streaming is used as default
sound referred to in expositions about the sound they get from their systems. A
nice place to end on the idea of Personal Sound.
Paul S
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