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Sound, neutrality and the pursuit of everything

The audiophile hobby is inherently a pursuit of some ideal. That ideal might differ from person to person, but what I am curious about is how each of us define that ideal. 

I kinda like where my system is at. I cue a well recorded track and think: damn that sounds good. But compared to what? Do I have a point of comparison to the original performance, the day it was recorded? Usually not. To use an overused album, unless I was sitting at the Olympia concert hall in Paris when Diana Krall performed there in 2001 and have a perfect auditory memory, how do I know my system if reproducing it with “fidelity”?

If the pursuit of perfection is useless as perfection is an illusion, how do you all define your level of satisfaction or achievement in this audiophile pursuit?

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erik_squires
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I'm after the most transparency I can have in an apartment.

It has to sound good at moderate listening levels and be so clear and lack distortion that I feel like you do when you are at the top of a mountain range, like you can see for miles, only with your ears.  It transports me to completely different acoustic spaces.

Re-creating a live rock n roll performance is most definitely NOT my goal.  I can't listen loud and I like my hearing, but chamber music to jazz ensembles are.

Towards this, I measure and strive for a neutral, smooth FR with a lot of damping.



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