Hifi V.s. The music makers

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.

I would also add, that it is hard to know what the Engineer, producer, artist, etc. was hearing because you weren't in the playback booth hearing the play back on the studio play back equipment. So, it will sound slightly different in your system. most likely, your equipment is much better than what was in the recording/play back booth. The mixing boards may have used ICs or solid state or tube (rare). The potentiometers may be really cheap, etc. You never really know what was used in the recording booth. So you really try to do the best you can to tailor your system to play back music in a manner which pleases you and do your best to try to reproduce the music in as realistic a manner as you can.

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"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. Czarivey"

I agree 100%.