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Does tube rolling with regard to CDP mean...

Bringing more color into the sound reproduction? If that is the case then tube rolling would be: changing tubes until you find the right coloration. But isn't it true that the live sound is what we are after? In that case tube rolling should mean: changing of tubes until the sound resembles live music.

Chris
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aball
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I am sorry but an instrument played in a "room" versus a "hall" will sound very different. That was my point. Mechans got it right - "live" sound is what we "think" is live sound and your live sound won't be like my live sound and the live sound of a band playing outside won't be the live sound of that band played on a stereo and a classical symphony in a concert hall's live sound won't be that live in a stereo room either. Live sound won't ever have an absolute reference, I assure you.

Just find what you "think" is live and all is well. Otherwise you will never be satisfied in this hobby and you will spend the rest of your days searching for the "best" stereo in frustration. Just read many of the posts people have here in this forum if you want examples.

Arthur
mrtennis
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hi arthur:

if you listen to a tenor sax in a venue 1 where the musician is away from room boundaries and you are say, 10 feet away, and then listen to a tenor sax in a larger room and the musician is still far away from room boundaries and you are 10 feet away, the perceived timbre in each case will be very close.

the point is there is similarity in timbre from venue to venue so that one can form an idea of what a tenor sax sounds like. the recall of such experiences is more of a problem than the differences in instrumental timbre.

when one hears a recording of a tenor, one has no idea what the recording sounds like. listening to live music is better than not listening to live music, for the purpose of configuring a stereo system.
aball
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I never said you shouldn't listen to live music.

I don't understand why so many people assume recording processes are perfect enough to voice their stereo with it. Which CD do you choose? haha

Getting the right sound is a subjective process because there is no absolute reference. We make it sound the way we assume it should be. One man's live-sounding stereo is another man's bright-and-shrill stereo.

By the way, "timber in each case will be very close," doesn't mean exactly the same. This was my point. A hifi stereo takes "very close," very seriously. Otherwise, we would all have $500 stereo systems and be satisfied with that.

Arthur
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