“Faithful to the recording”

@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.

@twoleftears ...but there seems to be a shortage of them, much less those who know how to wield one.... 😏  Personally, I apply it badly on the obvious irrational 'logic loops' with full knowledge that the unravel will generally snare and suck one in deeper into morass... ;)

Ah, Friend @mahgister ..."Say Something Meaningful..."  There's a lot of the inverse of that about...:(  Like many or most, I look to music to escape our fretting reality, knowing there's none on a rational plane.  Consequently, it leaks into my discourse, fouling it like hair in the drain sieve.

But, one does what one might or may....*s*
Perfection, in audio or life, is a wisp in the fog, taunting and promising.  We strive towards it, knowing that the likelihood of tripping will occur suddenly, without warning.  I guess chasing the fox overrules the rational, if only because of the thrill of the activity. *S*

I've my own odd pursuit in our shared distraction, but harmless in nature and I learn things.  Even if it distills down to a variant of the Completion Backwards Principal.

"Topological field studies"....(acoustic effects department)....*L*  Yup. 

I chanced upon a Infinity Loop (a.k.a., Mobius loop) in a Target store awhile back.  Of course, I had to have it....parked like MCs' lava lamp atop my 'audiophile pile', providing a great parking place for headphones....*G*

In an upcoming fit of pique, I'll grind it's flaws (pitting, and a slightly clumsy weld) and have it either black chromed or painted with Black 3.0...either will be apropos.  

Lacking broader powers, one opts to define and décor ones' personal reality concept...;)  Since the daily horrors play out without respite, and 2025 is now the tip of the potential plow into dissolution....

One can see the shrug fest already...:(

'Debbie Downer Time'....

I'm going to bed, see what nightmares lurk within....ciao'