How much reality do you really need?

I'm in the Master M camp. Reality is what you make it. MONEY, (as some have implied) has nothing to do with the reality of sound. TIME and experiments do.. 

If reality in sound equates to money invested, what do you do with ear buds or head phones? Say they don't sound good, when we all know they do. Some better than others. BUT a free pair that comes with a phone sound pretty good. Total cost .50 cents including packaging.

Set of earbuds and that right! Time to DANCE..

Hat on the floor and I slowly walk around the hat to the beat of the music, BUT my faithful K-9 can't keep the beat because she's got NO EAR BUDS!!. But she tries.. NOW we stop and slowly back around the hat to the beat... :-)

Regards..

An exact match to what? And how would you know when you are there?

Some posters here have the correct answer to this simple question:

There can be no reality.  An event cannot be reproduced with total precision, not least because it is being reproduced at a different time.

A system should seek to reproduce accurately what is on the recording.  The recording exists in the time it is being played.

End.

GO MAX!!