There is no such thing as a neutral component.
Statements that claim one piece is neutral are basing neutrality on some idea in their head which is therfore biased and not nuetral. Instruments sound different depending on whether you are sitting front row, back row, above or below the source. I used to sit under my mom's piano when she'd play and when I got up I would always notice how different the instrument sounded. Mic placement is never the same in a studio.
If you are trying to create what happened in the studio and think that is neutral good luck. You are still guessing what the studio sounded like. Most likely you were not in the studio and if you were the so called neutral sytem you develop to create that sound will be non-neutral for other cd's/sources. That is unless all your cd/LPs are recorded by the same engineer in the same studio using the same techniques. Neutrality is bunk! Buy a system that makes your favorite music sound the way you think it should sound. You may think my system is colored, maybe it is, but I'm damn happy with it!
Statements that claim one piece is neutral are basing neutrality on some idea in their head which is therfore biased and not nuetral. Instruments sound different depending on whether you are sitting front row, back row, above or below the source. I used to sit under my mom's piano when she'd play and when I got up I would always notice how different the instrument sounded. Mic placement is never the same in a studio.
If you are trying to create what happened in the studio and think that is neutral good luck. You are still guessing what the studio sounded like. Most likely you were not in the studio and if you were the so called neutral sytem you develop to create that sound will be non-neutral for other cd's/sources. That is unless all your cd/LPs are recorded by the same engineer in the same studio using the same techniques. Neutrality is bunk! Buy a system that makes your favorite music sound the way you think it should sound. You may think my system is colored, maybe it is, but I'm damn happy with it!