Interesting question, isn't it?
Ties into a recent search for a replacement cartridge for my system. Got down to a few makes/models with some described as having an ability to make older recordings 'sound good', while others that are very neutral and to a point approaching an almost sterility in the reproduction or closer to that as close to what is 'there' as possible.
Reminds me of a friend I had in the 80's who would invite people over to his house and play them back marching band music. Not just some brief listen . . . . long periods of intense but 'very' realistic marching band music. He became a bit of aficionado on it, even knew the stories of many top notch bands in North America, but many of us cut back on those visits to his uber-$$$ system regardless of how well things would sound.
Ties into a recent search for a replacement cartridge for my system. Got down to a few makes/models with some described as having an ability to make older recordings 'sound good', while others that are very neutral and to a point approaching an almost sterility in the reproduction or closer to that as close to what is 'there' as possible.
Reminds me of a friend I had in the 80's who would invite people over to his house and play them back marching band music. Not just some brief listen . . . . long periods of intense but 'very' realistic marching band music. He became a bit of aficionado on it, even knew the stories of many top notch bands in North America, but many of us cut back on those visits to his uber-$$$ system regardless of how well things would sound.