“Faithful to the recording”

I very much enjoyed the late Art Dudley's Sterophile Columns. However, I could never get along with his use of the terms "touch" and "force" - for example (re his Altec Valencia's) "More important, they play music with such a believable sense of touch and force that they've transformed the manner in which I approach almost every recording I've played through them."

@asvjerry 

I find your remarks very sensible. 

Even if one could afford chasing SOTA, that pursuit is not necessarily a prescription for satisfaction. As someone with a high capacity for perfectionism/obsessiveness, I'm grateful that my finances preclude my embarking upon such a grail quest!  

Name someone in the audio community that think like me that the most important factor of satisfaction is not upgrading but acoustic...I want to read him...I never read one or discover one, save some acousticians.......

It is a call for help from myself to everyone...

Thanks in advance...

Ockham's razor takes care of most Gordian knots.

Ockham’s razor is a tool for the thinking linear mind expressing itself in a DISCOURSE about a chosen something...

For the silent mind contemplating a plant, a room acoustic or the distribution of prime numbers, Ockham’s razor is useless... We use it to SAY something meaningful yes , to rationalize our expression in a linear way toward a conclusion about an aspect of reality, it is not a way to understand reality but to reduce it to a limited expression...

All great discoverers in science never know often why they arrive at some conclusion, they rationalyse it AFTER the fact...

The knot survived Alexender gesture, it is called topological field studies in mathematics...And no one there cut a knot before analysing it completely... 😁😊

«My heart is a gordian knot»-Groucho Marx 🤓

«My love is the Alexander sword brother»-Harpo Marx

Ockham’s razor takes care of most Gordian knots.