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RE: Comments from J. Gordon Holt

"There is only one absolute sound and that is the sound of real instruments in a real space."

While that may be true, we should realize that no recording has ever provided a proven standard of such, so audio systems will never attain it beyond doubt.

And since that one "absolute sound" is only known to the ones actually in the room as the music was being performed, and since nobody has demonstrated a perfect memory of how music sounded in past performance, there will never be actual proof of the one "absolute sound" being attained in reproduction.

Now the "illusion" of what the listener heard that is seemingly *very* close to *other* performances he experienced in the flesh may give him the impression that the playback quality is close to that ideal, but because that actual performance was *not* heard by the listener on location at the studio, he still doesn't really know for sure if the sonic absolute was attained.


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