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Re: Musical and others tastes

You could perhaps judge me about food (I don't like sushi for example) but I doubt about music.

All the music you list is guitar music or sometimes with a piano. Michael Hedges is cool but the others I don't know. Looks new agey.

"My wife could play solo violin concerts all day long, I still would not like it. She also could play saxophone, same result." If so then you would likely end up divorced. You either learn to love it (as I have) or you leave it. My guess is that if you have any open mind you would try to find out what your wife is so passionate about. Learning works this way Klaus, try it you might like it.

"We all are individuals with individual opinions and tastes. I don't judge your taste and I expect you to not judge mine." Whether you like it or not taste and aesthetics are judged all the time. So are people's opinions.

I judge you not on your taste in music but in your lack of experience in the genres of music that are generally considered the most difficult for a credible high end system to reproduce correctly.

I wouldn't judge you about this even if you were not parading around a supposed sense of superiority relating to some numbers that don't even correlate well with sound quality. The fact is that vinyl sounds better inspite of its flaws, which seem worse on paper perhaps...or perhaps not, and digital worse because of its flaws when it should sound better on paper. Analog for sure has a higher information density than digital and this is perhaps the reason as the brain is a very sensitive pattern recognition device. If the pattern is disrupted then the artificiality of the sound may be detected.

I am sorry if this upsets your tidy precise world but your ear is much more highly evolved to judge these things than the basic measurements made to generate sales specifications. I suggest you go out and use them in the real world more. BTW, I made plenty of measurements when desiging my DIY speakers. I began with a ruler flat in-room response. THe universal comments from my friends was that the speakers were too bright. I found that a natural roll-off above 8khz was more natural sounding. Interestingly, the microphone company B&K published a downward sloping curve as the most natural one for reproduction.

You cannot ignore the psychoacoustics of sound reproduction Klaus. To do so is why we have endless streams of crap components and speakers. Once engineering takes this seriously then we will have components that really make music transparently (to us maybe not to a meter) and musically natural. Ironically, tubes better fit this ideal than transistors. Their transfer functions and distortion patterns better mimic the human ear/brain's own patterns.


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