It is quite simple. Recorded music should sound like recorded music. It cannot be like hearing a symfony in a great concert hall or hearing a piano in the living room. You should be able to recognise that amps and microphones has been used to make the recording.
But you should be able compare the sound from you system with the sound from a band that uses amps and microphones to perform.
A recording should have a similar sound. The difference being the band using equipment that has to play very loud thereby being less detailed than when you listen to a recording of the band.
Do we want sound that is larger than life or just live sound!
Why the search for perfect sound is a dead end!
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Why the search for perfect sound is a dead end!
It’s that live feeling…………….
Re: Why the search for perfect sound is a dead end!
At the end of the day I just want to enjoy the music. Not f..k about with components and tune dem or worrying about whether the sound is "live" enough or whatever. It's relative, not absolute. If I enjoy it, it's enjoyable.
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Re: Why the search for perfect sound is a dead end!
We clearly need to start looking at reducing the signal to noise ratio - I've noticed a disturbing upward trend.
Re: Why the search for perfect sound is a dead end!
As always I only write how I see (hear) it and expect others to join in with their opinion on the subject. Only to create good discussions and hopefully learn a thing or two.
As Frederik has mentioned elsewhere musicians are not better at listening to hifi equipment than non musicians and putting their finger on what is good and what is not.
There is a good reason for this.
The reason being that hifi equipment in general creates an artificial world of sound where pitch and timing known from the real world has been altered enough to confuse the ears of musicians that are trained in detecting the slightest change in both. Together with recordings where this also can be the case this leaves musicians in a kind of "no mans land" where they cannot trust their own ears.
What has nailed it for me is my observations when changing my silvers with my black interconnects. It is clear to me that the blacks are a musicians best friend insisting on showing every change in pitch and timing as faithfully as possible and the way they preserve a naturel physical presence in the presentation of the music.
The silvers to me are the attempt from Linn to preserve as much as possible from the blacks and embracing the world of hifi with even "better" sound.
The blacks in my system hold my attention firmly focused on the music showing me even the smallest change in pitch and timing when the recording is good enough. The silvers make my focus turn more towards the "sound" even though they still make a brave attempt at playing music.
Hifi in general produces sound larger than life. My search is for music with live sound.
All above IMHO listening to my system and records.
As Frederik has mentioned elsewhere musicians are not better at listening to hifi equipment than non musicians and putting their finger on what is good and what is not.
There is a good reason for this.
The reason being that hifi equipment in general creates an artificial world of sound where pitch and timing known from the real world has been altered enough to confuse the ears of musicians that are trained in detecting the slightest change in both. Together with recordings where this also can be the case this leaves musicians in a kind of "no mans land" where they cannot trust their own ears.
What has nailed it for me is my observations when changing my silvers with my black interconnects. It is clear to me that the blacks are a musicians best friend insisting on showing every change in pitch and timing as faithfully as possible and the way they preserve a naturel physical presence in the presentation of the music.
The silvers to me are the attempt from Linn to preserve as much as possible from the blacks and embracing the world of hifi with even "better" sound.
The blacks in my system hold my attention firmly focused on the music showing me even the smallest change in pitch and timing when the recording is good enough. The silvers make my focus turn more towards the "sound" even though they still make a brave attempt at playing music.
Hifi in general produces sound larger than life. My search is for music with live sound.
All above IMHO listening to my system and records.
It’s that live feeling…………….