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RE: Using Live, Unamplified Music As A Reference Standard, Is It A Subjectivist's Or An Objectivist's Approach

"How is listening to unique sonic iterations of instruments - even the same 'type' of instrument - qualify one to decide what an 'instrument should sound like'?"

And yet, when you hear it through a stereo its nearly always clear its not the real thing. When you know what the real thing should sound like (it is a red herring this "there are so many variations etc." because at least to date when its live you know it instinctively), which comes from repeated exposure...regardless of the instrument quality, you will be able to make better informed decisions about what sounds more or less right in hifi.

"Where is gets foggy is how this makes one inherently better at blindly selecting components in a vortex of trial-and-error iterations while system building. Where it gets even more foggy is how one listening to LIVE music has anything to do with listening to recordings of live music."

No one said it was easy. If it were then we would all pick the right stereo the first time and be done with it. It would be more like television where people don't generally obsess over the kinds of things we do for audio. But it is better to have SOME guide than to have pure relativism that the "if you like it then it must be good" crowd advocate.

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