How important is it for you to attain a holographic image?

rvpiano, For the sake of clarity, consider that in my ’offending post’ I was directly addressing Goeff, Orpheus10, and yourself, separately. In my comment to you I said "just as someone might revel in his.....",meaning Orpheus10 .Should I have intended this to refer to you I would not have used "his", I would have used ’you or your’. I was trying to convey a contempt, much broader based than yours I think, assuming you were contemptuous at all, but erred in piggy backing on your comment. I should not have done this. For this I do apologize. Sincerely.

Thank you for your explanation. I understand now.
I do value your comments in general, and especially on classical music.

I’ll be happy to get back to our usual discussions. 🙂

"Accentuate the positive, and eliminate the negative"; that will be my motto this year, life is too short to get embroiled in negative harangues.

This is a very important and complex subject; especially if you want to exploit the full potential of recorded music.

My recommendation is to go back over the posts and retain all the positive information while rejecting the negative; this will be extremely beneficial if you want to achieve "holography".

It's always good to know who's speaking; I'm a music lover first and foremost, I am not an equipment lover. I mention ARC because so many people are familiar with the sound of ARC; it's highly definitive.

I like CJ preamps, and ARC power amps. Although I mention those names, I wont necessarily buy that brand, but I will buy something close to that sound, the same as a musician is shooting for a certain "sound"; one that will give him the tone and timbre he's looking for.

Newbee's seek these elements, tone and timbre in speakers, but to me, they exist in everything; my rig is tuned to deliver what the musician is saying.

Everyone seems to want speakers that sound like this, that or the other thing. My speakers emit precisely whatever sound the amp feeds them. In the beginning, no one ever wants this, but after many years, you want every nuance the musician is blowing; nothing more or less.

In my beginning, as a young man, I had musician friends I ran with; consequently, I lived the same life they lived (almost any way, I had to go to work in the morning) At any rate, the music I listened to was live at the nightclubs. People who listen to recorded music have no idea how much of a musicians life is in his instrument of choice.

You may not know it, but when you put that record on, what you really want to hear, is that musician, not your equipment. My heightened awareness of this makes it necessary to fine tune all my equipment to deliver the "facts"; "The facts maam, nothing but the facts", inquired Sgt. Friday.

A musician has spent his entire life learning how to express himself on his instrument; do I want to hear Conrad Johnson or the musician; with a little fine tuning, me and CJ work it out. No, I'm not a casual enthusiast.

orpheus10  ...

I couldn't agree with you more. The whole point of this hobby as far as I'm concerned is to get us closer to the actual event as played by the musicians. 

Frank