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In Reply to: Re: Yes posted by john curl on July 21, 2003 at 20:50:23:
I'm not too sure if accuracy can be defined in the context of recorded music and agree with Rodney Gold that there may not be an answer to the question. Each designer I'm sure has their own ideas and philosophies about what makes a piece of equipment accurate, assigning relevance to different mixes of variables. Some of the designers may actually get it correct but with no commandments of accuracy we will never really know which it is, ultimately we must rely on our instincts to make the determination and succumb to the probability that accuracy can not be defined by a measurement or a statement.I do agree distortion patterned properly can be irrelevant to the music the key being harmony. Also key would be using an input from the same techological era as the rest of the equipment after all, generally, that is what the input was originally voiced/referenced with wasn't it? Or does it not work like that?
Getting back to the term accuracy, I speculate that the term "an accurate system" is sometimes confused with one lacking of proper harmonics, with musical harmonics wiped clean or dirtied the unmusical "flaws" which have little harmonic structure become relatively magnified and draw attention. How else could "an accurate system" be unsatisfying musically? I would think a truly accurate system would more satisfying to a greater number of disks than an inaccurate one instead of the general belief of the opposite.
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A more accurate system should sound more like the MUSIC that was the source for the recording, and be true to that sound, deliver it as it was.I prefer a system that brings me closer to the live music than to the defects of the recording equipment used.
Some systems highlight the very boundaries of the recording techniques, not caring for reproducing the music, but showing off what the media is capable of. Is that accuracy? In a way, yes, it shows everything that is on the RECORD.
But that may or may not have to do how the actual performance sounded....
An example: I have a Dyna st70 / PAS / Voigt pipe setup, that is considered very anti-audiophile, some even despise it as unacceptable.
I have a friend who made a guitar recording at his home, that turned out to be 95% of what he wanted. (By my standards, one of the best I ever heard of a guitar recording, and all my audiophile friends wanted to get a copy instantly they heard it). I listened to this recording at a mega-buck system, and it was wow! I heard every detail, everything! But it did not sound at all like his guitar, that I have heard at his place playing.
He has a bunch of guitars, yet based on the recording I could not tell which he was using. Had I not known which he used, I would have said he was using another.Went home, played it again at the supposedly very inaccurate and coloring system, and I was stunned, because it sounded almost exactly as what I have heard at his place! I instantly recognized the guitar from its tone. The experience was _very_ similar to listening to him playing...
Janos
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