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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Accuracy vs. Musicality (and YMMV)
Post Subject: It is not a conspiracy. It is a stupidityPosted by Romy the Cat on: 5/7/2026
Well, the problem is that audio and music are completely different entities that are not related to each other. In my view, any audio practitioner or reviewer who insists that they understand the relationship between audio and music is simply deceiving themselves, because they have no idea what they are talking about, and they unfortunately spread nonsense to others, advocating that excessive listening experiences are directly related to specific aspects of audio. I have heard thousands of comments from all kinds of people trying to convince me that certain presumed spiritual movements after listening to their playback had a direct relationship to plate current or the height of a cable elevator. Ironically, plate current and the height of cable elevators do have a very distinct, identifiable signature, but the value of this sonic signature is completely misunderstood by the overwhelming majority of people. The sad reality is that some purely audio methods might indeed have an impact on how our psyche recognizes musical events and might help expedite certain mechanisms of the listening experience. But I have seen very few convincing examples of this in public listening settings. Mostly, people just immunize themselves against buyer’s remorse and, after a certain period of time, it becomes disgusting to me.
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