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musicality & acuracy....Where did the idea that they're mutually exclusive come from???

I believe because when you hear a lot of details, pink and white noise on the strings for example, the sound can become a little bit agressive in the mid-high range and the whole picture may not appear so organic ...

it's like standing on the podium in front of a symphony orchestra, your hear "strange" noises and sitting in the hall on the 21th row where the whole acoustic information arrives mixed at your ears ... and loses some details

make the test with a violin player, stand very close and then at some 5 meters ...

the pratice on cables:
-Shunyata Antares gives me less details but shows an organic musical whole picture of the music
- NBS active III is faster, show more details but is less pleasant to hear

hi dave:

if a recording preserves the attributes of music and is played through an accurate stereo system, the result is as you state.

the key is that the source be well recorded and that a stereo system should be minimally inaccurate, as perfection does not exist.

with regard to a component, i believe you imply that the amr will preserve the musical attributes of a recording if they are present. if they are not, i believe the amr will reveal the inadequacies, as well. this means the amr is relatively uncolored.

is twhat i have described what you mean ?

the basic distinction between accurate and musical is that one may use the term "musical" to describe a recording and "accurate" to describe the sound of a stereo system.

a stereo system can't always be "musical", because some sources are not "musical".

Mrtennis said:

"...with regard to a component, i believe you imply that the amr will preserve the musical attributes of a recording if they are present. if they are not, i believe the amr will reveal the inadequacies, as well. this means the amr is relatively uncolored.

is twhat i have described what you mean ?"

I've not heard the AMR. I believe that what you said applies to the Playback Designs MPS-5.

Two people have written me saying that they replaced their AMRs with PD because the AMR was too colored for them vs. the PD.

Dave

Clavil said:

"I believe because when you hear a lot of details, pink and white noise on the strings for example, the sound can become a little bit agressive in the mid-high range and the whole picture may not appear so organic ...

it's like standing on the podium in front of a symphony orchestra, your hear "strange" noises and sitting in the hall on the 21th row where the whole acoustic information arrives mixed at your ears ... and loses some details"

If the violins' sound contains pink and white noise, then something is wrong. I suspect you're talking about the edge on the sound when string instruments are heard up close. I play trumpet in orchestras, so I know very well the sound of which you speak, I think.

If the mics were set so close that you hear that, then I want to hear that. Starkers Bach Suite recording has that, along with him breathing and his fingers on the fingerboard. It's like he's playing for me in my living room (I've heard cello in my living room) and I want to hear that.

It's the reoording engineer's choice. Most give a slightly more distant perspective which I also find pleasing. I want my sytem to give me whatever the engineer was aiming at. If the perspective seems too close then I can always move my chair back a little. I don't want my CDP messing with perspective or smoothing or rounding the sound.

Dave