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In the Thread: High-end audio: Absolute Sound vs Naturality vs Expressivity
Post Subject: Perfectly comfortablePosted by PeterA on: 12/29/2024
 Romy the Cat wrote:
I see your point. You feel uncomfortable with my declaration of the third Way is the right way. Or even worse, me proclaiming that it is the only right way.  It makes sense to be uncomfortable with this position. However, I make this proclamation not because it is what I feel I am doing. It is not about me as a person but it is an abstract conversation about methodological purity to achieve let's call it "neutrality". I very intentionally put this word in the quotes. I still insist that that way is that only predictable, repeatable and significantly less prone to mistakes and wrong directions approach. Would it be something that I practice or not is completely irrelevant to the sake of this conversation. I'm truly looking beyond your or my or anybody else personal practice.

It is not about me feeling uncomfortable.  I simply pointed out your contradiction about not being in a group.  You describe the third approach as practiced by activists, not observers.  That makes it a group too.   And you are in it.   I agree that it is not about me or you, but you make it about you when you say that you do not join cults while implying that others do.  I also pointed out to you that I do not cower in the corner saying "Please do not hurt me" as someone in group #2.  Don't hurt me and being in the safety under an umbrella is a strange way to describe the very people you want to have an abstract conversation about methodological purity with.

I am perfectly comfortable discussing methodology and any declaration you might make.  My goal is to try to understand what you are saying.  It may be all too subtle as you said, but just when the conservation starts a back and forth, you move on changing the subject.  Forget about my comfort or yours.  You started this thread of ideas by describing exactly my and your and anybody else's personal practice.   This is how you set up the different approaches.  Now you want to move beyond them, just as the details were becoming clear.

 It looks like you want to think out loud and talk to yourself.    I might read and listen now.

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