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RE: taste vs accuracy

"Quality is not a meassure of like/dislike, it is statement of fullfiled standards and references."

Of course! And the most important quality is surely freedom from harmonic distortion...

But I take it to a higher level, the system level. And in home audio ultimately the only system quality that matters is how much I enjoy the sound. That's my standard and live music and other audio systems are my references.

In that I'm at odds with many posters who only care about one quality of the gear: cost. And to them the antithesis of "quality" is "cheap".

"Quality" is largely synonymous with "attribute" except for having a known direction for "goodness". I.e. higher quality is always a good thing while a higher attribute may go either way depending upon the desired outcome.

Few other words in the English language are more abused by marketeers to manipulate the fuzzy minded than "quality". That's dominant quality of "quality"....

Good of you to bring it up...

Rick


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