Hifi V.s. The music makers


There is another group of "audiophiles" in this world . They are the musicians ,artists , sound engineers, producers , ect ... who do not spend a lifetime agonizing over which kinda of copper to use between amps and speakers .They are also looking for absolute "truth" to what they are hearing . no colorations. I ask why we are so determined to alter their work ?
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I'd prefer great musician over great recording.
Listening to virtuosos and maestros via cheap system in MP3 format can bring joy as well regardless of recording or playback quality.
The OP's stated premise is kind of like the one about all that wiring that exists before it gets to your outlet so why bother about the last few feet from said outlet to your system.

To that I say that once the recording is made, worrying about which cable to use in my system makes about as much sense as worrying about which speaker I should use or which source to use. It's my choice which depends on my taste.

I don't feel that I'm, in the least way, changing anything about the original recording.

This is not meant as a negative response to the OP's question but an answer of sorts that in the end begs the matter that to me, the final result (the recording), is just another link in the chain that ends up with a system of my choice to hear it in a way I like, being an audiophile and all that. :-)

All the best,
Nonoise
They are also looking for absolute
"truth" to what they are hearing . no colorations. I ask why we
are so determined to alter their work ?

No, they don't. They're trying to predict how it will sound at home. Stereo
image is constructed from multi-microphone recording, compression is
applied etc. We're not trying to alter their work. Most of us don't even
have tone controls. We're trying to obtain clear, natural sounding 3D
image from what they constructed. Truth, as you call it, would require
zero compression, making it very difficult for the most of us to play since
we cannot provide required dynamic range either because of equipment or
ambient noise (or neighbors).

Some of recordings that suppose to be the "truth" are simply
atrocious while some are breathtaking and everything else in in between -
just an average. I agree with Czarivey, that music takes huge precedence
over recording quality but I tend to search for recordings that have both.
There are musicians and there are the recording arts. The musicians produce the raw material for the recording artists/engineers to use in their product. Sometimes the musician is highly involved and sometimes not.
Not to go too far off course but audiophiles play the product produced by the art of recording, and in my opinion that's what we should be doing not trying to put the musician/musicians in the room. They are two different things and both have their own merits.
Russ, this and that is true, but no great recording artist can make poor performance great while great musician can turn poor recording sound great.