@knotscott,
"I’m very much concerned with whether or not the sound can convince my brain that there’s music being played. We all have a very unique requirement to satisfy that illusion, and for some it is indeed a very steep climb....."
This is very much the hook, the elusive great white whale.
Shiver me timbers the damn thing won’t keep still!
Can’t get a harpoon on him, just a glancing sight now and then. A tantalising glimmer into another world beyond this one, but then it’s gone.
Simply far too many variables and far too many side roads and trappy cul de sacs along the way.
Those apocryphal stories of audiophiles who have mega buck systems but only 6 records they regularly play are probably not as fantastic as we might like to believe.
What if were the case that given a particular system in a particular room with a particular listener, that there were no more than half a dozen albums that could provide the necessary thrill so desired by the listener?
We all have to draw the line somewhere (or die trying), don’t we? But it’s far from easy. Just yesterday I was reading of Pete Townshend working on a new mastering of Who’s Next.
Common sense suggests it’s hardly likely to be better than existing editions but we live in hope. Besides, Townshend himself has promised us a look into his fabled Lifehouse project.
So we go on. And on. And on.
