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RE: You are completely wrong with this statement!

"The way we perceive sound and depth is universal. Doesn't matter the source. And crappy electronics get in the way."

Let's find some common ground here:
"We are perceiving art that is created in the mind of the Producer" Agree?

"That produced product is is encoded into two somewhat correlated voltage signals - or the digital representation of that signal.
Agree?

The acoustical signal the hits your ears from your envious system does not likely come close to the signal that reached the producer's ears in is production studio.
Agree?

The producer's history of listening and and your listening experiences to music (live and reproduced) is likely to be quite different.
Agree?

The last two sections describe two differing spots in time, acoustics and experience. Isn't it likely that the perception of space and depth that we get from the same system and especially differing systems (even those with "Crappy" systems) will be different for you and me.

One point I've posted before... Some people never hear the "Image" that cannot "imagine" it. My wife of 36 years is an example. A musician, up through college (Clarinet). I played Trombone as a adolescent. Shortly after we were married - I had set up an early living room with a modest system consisting of Boston Acoustic A40's, NAD power amplifier, my venerable Acoustat Preamplifier and Technics and Thorens turntable (I still have all four -I has sold my Obelisks, Pioneer R2R, a couple power amplifiers for engagement ring money).

I thought we would be able to enjoy my hobby of listening to music together. But while I heard the magic of breadth and depth, pace and tone and something that resembled a real experience, she hears and still hears the instruments playing through loudspeakers. We go to symphony she loves it. We co to a PA system concert - she hears the music and watches the performance.

Two schools of though I have on this: (1) -(I wish this was the answer) "My system isn't good enough!" I know my mind is an easy sell, I can listen to a lot of differing system and enjoy them -that doesn't mean I'm a pushover, especially as I am getting older. Electrostatics - mostly great over the years except for ML. Usally out of my budget. The only Maggie I very liked until the 1.6 generation and later was the Tympany. Energy, Paradigm (nope - grates my ears is a moment. Advent Yes! AR9's were good too. Vandersteen yes, Theile - No. But I digress. Visiting lot's of hi-fi stores and listening to a lot of different High end and very high end systems - pretty much ruled this out. So the other possibility is that the vision is so strong a reality that the acoustics "imagery" does happen in her mind. Or perhaps, she listens to music in a completely different way - focusing on the components like a musician might to blend or accentuation as a director's vision and instruction might wish of the production.


"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius

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