"audiophiles listen to their equipment"


That quote is misattributed to Alan Parsons, as I understand. Anyway saying there's a problem with wanting good sound is like saying an instrument designer, aiming for beautiful sound, could not possibly be a music lover and is only interested in the sound of the instruments. I.e. the sound is inseparable from the music. For me the beauty of the sound, good microdynamics, and so on, are the "doors" to the meaning of the music.

magon

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@stuartk 

”psychoacoustical experience of a tri-tone interval has little to do with sonics.”

If the system is incapable of reproducing it, then you are correct: there will be none to be heard. 

As I have said elsewhere, audio is not an end in itself: its purpose is to faithfully reproduce what the artist, with the help of the recording engineer, intended you to hear. 

I can’t believe how we go through this topic with seemingly infinite variations.