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In the Forum: Playback Listening
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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