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In Reply to: what I got from his article posted by BillyBuck on April 11, 2009 at 15:32:09:
"..was that it just doesn't make sense to worry about an op-amp, PCB trace, or feedback loop in the last 1% of the signal chain, given that the vast majority of recordings have already weathered scores or hundreds of trips through such circuits."
I'd only agree with this notion if all recordings in existence had such compromise. Or if one **only** listened to recordings that have had such compromise. And from the mainstream perspective, this seems to be the case. This is why "high-fidelity" sound reproduction has died at the mainstream level.
The root of the problem is declined musical standards, lack of exposure to live music and quality sound reproduction, and the lost art of aural discernment. Lowered expectations. If one opts to tolerate the declined standards of music and/or feels that ear training is too much of a drudgerous chore, then the Self article makes total sense.
But with the passion for music and playback on an absolute scale, which is driven by the joy of fine music at the purest level, such sentiment to go along with lowered expectations IMO is not only a defeat for high-fidelity sound reproduction, but a defeat for music.
Those putting out the music and recordings nowadays can do a lot better, in my humble opinion. We should be criticizing the producers, engineers, and artists for lowering the standards, rather than the audiophile end users who seemingly try to listen through the compromises.
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- Giving In to Lowered Expectations? - Todd Krieger 04/12/0912:39:05 04/12/09 (0)
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