Two questions to make you mad.

I can stand on the streets of Savannah and listen to live musicians and imagine that I am in front of my stereo. I can sit in front of my stereo and imagine that I am at a live concert. I think it is all due to my special cables- or I’m too old and decrepit to no longer know the difference...

Thomas Edison started marketing his new phonograph in 1916 by having a live singer stand next to his phonograph on stage. He would task the audience with guessing if the singing was live or the recording. (No mention if he used special cables.) Over a hundred years later and we are still trying to find that magic.

I'm not mad.

#1. Don't know. 

#2. Don't care.

@donavabdear 

Tanx😎

You'll have to try harder if your intentions are to make us mad.

I was going to suggest that if you are seeking the true sound of a piano, you should simply buy one but I see you already have one, so maybe you should just enjoy your music.

I am of the same opinion as you...

But there is also a price to pay for A.I. domination as tool becoming more than a tool...

We will see soon ...

@mahgister 
Thanks for your note, I had a feeling you'd have some interesting thoughts. I think A I will change everything in sound one of the interesting things that will change soon will be the meaningless ideas that we pay so much for today that will be totally missing from future systems. A I won't understand fluff or aesthetics or marketing hype. A I may finally give the end user a standard for acoustics then after that we can modify the sound to suit our taste. A I will need quantum computers to really change things but that is just around the corner as well.