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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: High-end audio: Absolute Sound vs Naturality vs Expressivity
Post Subject: The Library of BabelPosted by Paul S on: 12/29/2024

For all I agree with Romy about the part of accidental success, it’s fair to say, five years spent with ML2s taught me things about Sound I likely would never have learned without them, and very certainly those amps “upped the ante” considerably in terms of my expectations and desires from things audio. Likewise, my time spent tearing apart and reconstructing curated vintage drivers. Is it then ironic that I moved on from ML2s and vintage drivers? I think it is not in my case because part of the insight I gained from using and playing with the gear I used was to recognize the contributions and limitations of the gear, itself. Of course, this is not a problem until one wishes to move past those limitations or alter those contributions. And because the ML2s are so damned good it was not easy to move past them! In my own case, it was my relentless pursuit of Big Music that kept me on track, in order that I find a way to present that Music to myself in my home with more rather than less insight than I got from the ML2s. And, as Romy has pointed out, better for Big Music need NOT mean worse for Bach; quite the contrary is possible, as I have determined -  for myself. Romy's post above was not entered when I wrote the preceding, but I also agree wholeheartedly that the basis for the evaluation of gear is "neutrality". How boring is that? And Good Luck with it, as a practical matter of fact; but that's the Unwobbling Pivot, for sure.


Paul S

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