I am a musician and my reference is the sound of real music... live, non amplified, acoustic instruments. If a system gets that right, then it gets it all right. After all this is the definition of ''fidelity'' in the phrase ''High Fidelity'' is it not?
In reviews (both professional and by owners) it is often sited that a system, or component, ''sounded very close to real live...'' or ''suspended disbelief...''
I liked my AMR DP 777 SE so much that I thought I would never abandon it.
But the Terminator simply got me that much closer to that ideal.