Raul,
A few years ago I was talking to another audiophile at a show. We were discussing gear we had heard during the day and he mentioned a new and pricey cd player he had recently purchased. It became clear during our conversation that he believed the new player in combination with the rest of his system recreated music equally to a "live" event. I was not surprised that he actually thought this to be true. I told him what I told you when you visited me. When the Vienna Philharmonic plays in Carnegie Hall and I attend a couple of concerts, it is tough to listen to my audio system the next day. After a day or two, my ear forgets the "greatness" of the live event and my system sounds good once again. It has become obvious to me that too many audiophiles are listening to their systems in a "recreation vacuum" with too little time spent in the presence of the real thing and I suspect that many well intentioned manufacturers are doing the same. My current system is very satisfying to many people who listen to it, but so too were the systems I owned over the years which were "cheap" and far less sophisticated by comparison. This has been true I suspect because they made the "recreation" of the real event sound like the real thing in a convincing way. It isn't the dollars spent, it is the care with which they are spent with regard to recreating the real event that makes the system. I am convinced of this and I have been harping on it for nearly 40 years.
Mark
A few years ago I was talking to another audiophile at a show. We were discussing gear we had heard during the day and he mentioned a new and pricey cd player he had recently purchased. It became clear during our conversation that he believed the new player in combination with the rest of his system recreated music equally to a "live" event. I was not surprised that he actually thought this to be true. I told him what I told you when you visited me. When the Vienna Philharmonic plays in Carnegie Hall and I attend a couple of concerts, it is tough to listen to my audio system the next day. After a day or two, my ear forgets the "greatness" of the live event and my system sounds good once again. It has become obvious to me that too many audiophiles are listening to their systems in a "recreation vacuum" with too little time spent in the presence of the real thing and I suspect that many well intentioned manufacturers are doing the same. My current system is very satisfying to many people who listen to it, but so too were the systems I owned over the years which were "cheap" and far less sophisticated by comparison. This has been true I suspect because they made the "recreation" of the real event sound like the real thing in a convincing way. It isn't the dollars spent, it is the care with which they are spent with regard to recreating the real event that makes the system. I am convinced of this and I have been harping on it for nearly 40 years.
Mark