In article , Bob Latham
wrote:
In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article , Bob Latham
wrote:
The idea of needing a live reference is utter Bunkum, you don't.
I've been to many classical concerts and a few rock ones but it
doesn't help in the slightest.

You do push that boat rather too far. :-)

If you have no clue what a violin or any other instrument sounds like,
how would you decide if what you hear from a CD is 'fidelity'? Ditto
for the sound of a broadcast from a given hall?

It just doesn't work like that for me and never has. Some people claim
you cannot decide on kit without listening to "real" music and not
studio created stuff, I don't agree with that either.


That's fine *FOR YOU*. But not a basis for telling *everyone* else they
will be exactly the same as you.


If you don't give a damn for what the sound in the hall was, then,
yes, you can just pick a system, etc, for a Hi-Fi (sic) which acts as
music box and plays the noises you like. But that is a music box not a
High *Fidelity* system.

I just totally disagree. By that token anyone who doesn't listen to jazz
or classical is not likely to end up with High Fidelity.

You fail to distinguish cases in the relevant way. Some recordings will be
in a venue or hall or similar and the acoustic will be a part of the sound
an *audience* would expect to hear. Others will be laid down in a studio
and be 'created' by recording engineers, etc.

[snip]

I have never and will never evaluate kit on classical music, for me it
does not push the system to the edges to see what disappoints or what is
clean.

That's fine for your individual value of "I", but not a basis of asserting
it applied to *everyone* else.

*If* you want to feel at home that what you hear sounds like what you
heard when at the venue, then that is a big help.

Whatever you buy you'll never get anywhere near a live performance in a
different room and hours later you will not be able to recall anyway.

Yet from experience you can get 'nearer' by taking comparisons into
account.

Your views and requirements are fine for you, but avoid taking for granted
they all apply to *everyone* else in *every* case.

Jim

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