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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Accuracy vs. Musicality (and YMMV)
Post Subject: The rest is noisePosted by Romy the Cat on: 5/16/2026
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a connection between mainstream hi-fi
Paul
, I'm sorry, but you are getting things wrong, from my perspective. There is no such thing as mainstream high-end audio. The entire concept is complete marketing BS, which unfortunately has been successfully won.
The immense capacity that high-end audio potentially has is destroyed when people are convinced that high-end audio out there is some kind of composition of specially produced, better-result-oriented equipment or a better-organized listening environment, but it is all unconscious crap developed by unconscious people for unconscious consumers.
The truth is that with a properly structured relationship between the individual and the high-end audio ceremony, equipment, as you and most people know it, is surprisingly irrelevant. High-end audio is a deeply personal and extremely individualistic process for a person to discover different manifestations of consciousness transmitted by the virtue of musicality.
Anything we do or anything in existence is just an expression of consciousness trying to declare itself. You, me, a sandwich on the table, a time, a neutron star, or your favorite toy from childhood are all just expressions of consciousness, materialized in the world in a way our physical rendering is able to understand. The patterns of those renderings become belief systems, or a sandwich, an amplifier, your son or my son, a tree, or a rabbit jumping in your backyard.
Playback equipment is the same transmission of consciousness, and there are so many ways to consume it. Discussing how this reinstating consciousness becomes more or less transparent to an initial intent, and associated with high-end audio as understood today — the height of a cable elevator or plate current of an output tube — is an exceptionally complex concept that, from my perspective, I have never seen or observed anywhere except in my work in 2025.
The brutal unconscious connectivity of sonic changes produced by a cable elevator is just small talk on audio subjects. After my individuation, I completely repel all forms of unconscious projections and small talk. I have zero interest and zero tolerance for that.
People can certainly discuss how a change of the cable elevator affects sound; however, it has absolutely zero relation to whether this sound change is good or bad. It is just irrelevant.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site