Human owns their habits like a shirt, they know that it is an habit but they are proud of it or try to makes that habits an object to be proud of and not only a relative action...
I had discussed with some about their audio system and reviews and reviewers, and they cannot see that their tastes are habits solely acquired through certain limiting circumstances and that owning a relatively good audio system is not related directly and mostly to these relative tastes... Then reading reviews of electronic components of someone with the same taste habits is only slightly more useful than reading the financial markets, if our goal is to create a real relatively good audio experience for ourselves...
This creation is directly relative to our own conscious works and experimental plays with the 3 conditions linked to the embeddings of the audio system in a mechanical system (vibrations-resonances controls) in the acoustical field of a room and in the electrical grid of the room and of the house...(There is also others confitions than these 3, but we must begins somewhere with the most basic one)
Where is tastes in that context? How tastes can play any other role than a secondary one?
We all had the same taste and dream about a real Hi-Fi experience and the objective conditions to realize it...Tastes comes on after all that and is more an anecdotal preference, linked to the place we comes from, than a real factor for an objective experimental creation...
Reviews and reviewers are entertaining. sometimes informative, but they act like many pro and not pro-reviewers did, relativizing finally all to "tastes"...They dont speak, forgetting any specific electronic component whatsoever, about how to make them all great, whatever the components... Who will sell anything if the set of all very good electronic audio components is too large?
I wanted that to be said somewhere without hurting feelings... :)
"Before choosing my wife sure I taste it " -Groucho Marx
