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Post Subject: Business As Usual vs. Choose By EarPosted by Paul S on: 1/1/2025
The very reason I posted about "Accidental Success" (in Playback Listening) is recognition of and resignation about the fact that audio components are generally not developed through high-demands listening, and those that seem to be so developed are severally limited (to my ears). In the case of front ends, I started making mine "harder" and harder years ago, until I was dealing with TMI (too much information), then I tried different ways to get all the information to "work", meaning "all the parts contribute to my Musical insight", without rounding things off. There is a big downside to this approach, namely that recordings sound like recordings, and - as we all know - not all recording are "good". There was a lot of tweaking over many years to get things to the point where I could get more Music than sound, per se, and "tricks" included for a while selecting parts that seemed not to expedite or hinder sounds, particularly Music, but they just passed it on. We are all stuck with parts that have very specific jobs to do, and specs are not nothing where this is concerned. In the end, i think it is well to have paid attention to things as I heard them, as I grew my system. It's hard for me to imagine commodifying anything I have done, if only because of all the time it's taken me. But I agree with Romy that "someone" with the manufacturing capabilities "ought to be able to" build on success via reverse engineering, if nothing else. Are there manufacturers with evolved listening skills based on evolved Musical appreciation that are consistently churning out great sounding, edge-of-the-art components? Off hand, I can't think of any...
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