Just a few interjections regarding accurate vs. inaccurate in audio parlance. A fair number of us audiophiles reveal a concern for and attraction to the kind of sound that displays clean outlines and so called tonal neutrality. Almost anyone who attends a live concert soon discovers that this kind of sound is much less in evidence in the concert hall than it is in one's home, coming from electronic boxes and cables. Even a cursory listen at a live concert reveals instrumental sounds that are softer, warmer AND frequently easier on the ears at greater dynamic levels in contrast to reproduced sounds in one's abode. Would one describe this concert hall experience as a "neutral" manifestation of reality? I guess what I'm driving at is while we enjoy our own personal sound illusion at home, some of us occasionally get quite insistent about any "other" kind of preference being innacurate and/or colored in the worst sense of the term. For those who don't or won't admit it, colorations are everywhere, and this is precisely why I don't really like using the word, neutrality(inasmuch as I am sometimes compelled to for the sake of familiarity)when it comes to characterizing sound. We pick and choose or are drawn to or taken in by constellations of colorations. The only absolute sound is the publication which bears that name.
