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RE: The philosophy of "higher fidelity" in audiophilia is B.S.

Actually, if we include your view then it's 3 if not 4 or 5 warring cults.

But you do bring up a good point. I don't think high fidelity was originally intended to be a joke but it looks like some-to-many have turned it into exactly that - especially those who make a living at it.

But I see striving for fidelity to the music info embedded into a given recording medium as the best alternative and one that should be entirely within our scope - either actually or at least potentially and therefore entirely attainable.

In other words, from our own experiences with computer backups and restores, we can be pretty certain that reading digital information is pretty close to 100% accuracy unless a piece of hardware has failed.

If reading close to 100% of the music info is true, then it's really just a matter of minimizing distortions such that the vast majority of music info read and processed remains audible above a given playback system's noise floor, rather than below the noise floor where it is inaudible.

Hence, this option should at least theoretically be above reproach such that one like yourself would be hard-pressed to "deconstruct and destroy."

Anything beyond that target is simply outside of our scope and therefore seemingly pointless or nebulous for a target. In other words, at some point we have to trust others e.g. sound and mastering engineers, etc, to perform due diligence.





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