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RE: And SS (99.99% of them) = which ugly colouration can you stomach?

In other words you can't describe the "absolute sound," you can only describe other sounds in relation to it. All descriptions in audio are relative to something: other components or your absolute sound. You'd be surprised how few people really want or care about the absolute sound.

Richard says we can't reproduce it and so turns us more or less free to find something we think feels "right." Right for us? Right for the gods? Right for the Necessary Angel? Right. But some designers still feel compelled to go after it. And some listeners fee compelled to join them. I am speaking for them here, after emerging from a thread, as I said, that felt like a wine tasting.

Putting more words in Richard's mouth, his "right" as we know is the sometimes incomparable beauty of an all Audio Note system. For some others it is the rich but firm physicality of good hybrid electronics and well known French speakers I've been known to praise. What are these two choices right in relation to? Some part of the absolute sound, a large part of the listener's predilections.

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