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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Accuracy vs. Musicality (and YMMV)
Post Subject: Plato's Cave (and YMMV...)Posted by Paul S on: 2/3/2026
I read or heard many years ago that the word "education" was from Latin, educo, to draw forth. Meanwhile, OED has it as late middle English. I like the idea going in that there's something There to draw from. I hope we all gain from our mutual association, as I know I do. Surely there is more to life than audio, and it has been said here ad nauseum that a pile of audio parts is not what "makes Music" in ones home. Like Romy says, the "simple facts of life" tell a lot, and I recommend again "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" as a good look at Jung, notwithstanding the fact that he aims to tell what he wants us to hear. I try to listen with an empty head, for all the good that does me, but of course I bring my experience with me wherever I go. As for audio, some of the Great Notions we've cooked up here include Romy's "Audio Intelligence" and "Exaggerated Irrelevance". Each could spin a book, and each serves as a guide to building a hi-fi that will "play Music", given the Listener can hear Music. Of course, the most important part of the title of this "Accuracy v. Musicality..." thread is "YMMV", since the juxtiposition of terms is itself (intentionally) facile to begin with. This was not meant as a cruel joke, rather to create frisson, to stir The Pot.
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