How competitive are you with your system?

Not proud to admit it, but I think I’m competitive about acquiring sound that makes me happy for the lowest cost. 

@isellgoodgear Google carlos269 and mastering systems and you will see pictures of my SADIE DSD8 and Weiss BW-102 modular Harmonia Mundi Mastering Digital Audio Workstations (DAW), my Ed Meitner hand-built DSD ADC and DSD DAC units that Ed built for Sony for the development SACD and original SACD releases. you will see pictures of my Fairman (Denmark) mastering equipment and my 18-bit DASH archiving decks that Sony developed for archiving their recordings at the old Sony Classical Studios in New York, You will also see my mastering equip,ent that came directly from Sterling Sound mastering studios. Some of my mastering equipment has been used on platinum selling recordings.

Which brings me back to, if your system sounds so fabulous then why are you so afraid to share an audio recording of your system from the listening position that showcases how great your system sounds?

Not being a competitive person at all it's an easy answer. I know my system is good/very good; it's built to best value proposition. I have no intention of ever upgrading again unless something breaks.

@carlos269    

so what says you of systems that sound exceptional and great on audio recordings embedded in videos?

Problem is that i have never heard a video that comes anywhere near close to what the sound of as system sounds like if one is in the room with it. IOW, no great or exceptional audio on videos. 

@daveyf  How many different systems have you done the in the room versus audio recording embedded in video comparisons on? Have you even done it with your own system?

The interesting thing is that this entire hobby predicates on the concept of being able to capture sound on recordings accurately. I’m not sure how this can be true in the studio, outdoor venues, closets, backyards, and so on but not a reasonable expectation in our own listening rooms. Where does the audio recording of sound fall apart when it comes to capturing audio recordings accurately in our listening rooms but not anywhere else? Care to explain that to me?????

You see, if we concede on the premise that sound can be recorded and playback accurately then this whole hobby of ours falls apart. In order to want to playback and reproduce sound accurately, one must first have a belief and accept that sound can be captured and recorded accurately otherwise this whole thing just caves in and falls apart.

This isn’t some type of philosophical exercise. When you listen to a voicemail of a relative out in traffic or less optimal location can you still tell who that is on the recording. Some of the famous recordings were captured with a Shure SM-85 microphone in bathrooms and closets. What makes you discount all audio system in room recordings but accept the commercial recording you hear on the radio, those that you purchase or stream online, or the ones you listen to on your system?