Attention to balance or as many here will submit, synergy, seems to me as much if not more so a priority than is mere resolution, as your own words expressed early on in this post, alluding to a mismatched affair.
I see quite a fine line between utterly resolving yet critically mechanical and uninvolving, vs. highly resolving and involving. Straying from that certain ‘balance’ front to back in a system will very often overshoot the end result and allow it to wind up too much, or insufficient.
Refinement in the resolution and details of the presentation is a key aspect if one wishes to possess an expressive and entertaining system which begs to be played at longer intervals.
A starkly resolute and detailed depiction of the sound stage alone lends itself to an annoying presentation which is usually shortlived. To those ends one has but to avoid paying attention to those areas other than acquiring fine components. I’ve had and have, great items which if not set up properly will absolutely not be stand out items in general. Poor racks, sub par cabling, inattention to power conditioning ((if needed), room treatments, etc… deny or avoid paying attention to these ancillaries and one will seldom know the true voice of the sum of a systems parts or the enterprises voice as a whole, for that matter.
Certainly resolution is significant enough a talent for a component to provide, sure. It must begin up front as well… but it’s not the end all be all that each and every device in the signal chain must have as it’s paramount trait. Without nuance, honesty, naturalness, timber accuracy, dynamic expression, and an ability to recreate both drive and subtlety, an utterly resolute window to the audio venue will be too spotllit and sterile to provide emotive interest to the listener.
But that’s just me… another may well feel differently, and vow neutrality as the prime mover instead… yet it’s sheer mention begs a more visceral and heated set of arguments. Yet another will stipulate transparency the more substantial element over that of mere resolution. Albeit, each of the aforementioned are the factors of marrying resolution and details and how they are cast into the fray and then reproduced.
A single ingredient does not make a sauce. The addition of the right zest can elevate a sauce however. Of all the ingredients contained in each repast, good judgment should prevail above the desire for any singularly predominant element. Even resolution itself.
I see quite a fine line between utterly resolving yet critically mechanical and uninvolving, vs. highly resolving and involving. Straying from that certain ‘balance’ front to back in a system will very often overshoot the end result and allow it to wind up too much, or insufficient.
Refinement in the resolution and details of the presentation is a key aspect if one wishes to possess an expressive and entertaining system which begs to be played at longer intervals.
A starkly resolute and detailed depiction of the sound stage alone lends itself to an annoying presentation which is usually shortlived. To those ends one has but to avoid paying attention to those areas other than acquiring fine components. I’ve had and have, great items which if not set up properly will absolutely not be stand out items in general. Poor racks, sub par cabling, inattention to power conditioning ((if needed), room treatments, etc… deny or avoid paying attention to these ancillaries and one will seldom know the true voice of the sum of a systems parts or the enterprises voice as a whole, for that matter.
Certainly resolution is significant enough a talent for a component to provide, sure. It must begin up front as well… but it’s not the end all be all that each and every device in the signal chain must have as it’s paramount trait. Without nuance, honesty, naturalness, timber accuracy, dynamic expression, and an ability to recreate both drive and subtlety, an utterly resolute window to the audio venue will be too spotllit and sterile to provide emotive interest to the listener.
But that’s just me… another may well feel differently, and vow neutrality as the prime mover instead… yet it’s sheer mention begs a more visceral and heated set of arguments. Yet another will stipulate transparency the more substantial element over that of mere resolution. Albeit, each of the aforementioned are the factors of marrying resolution and details and how they are cast into the fray and then reproduced.
A single ingredient does not make a sauce. The addition of the right zest can elevate a sauce however. Of all the ingredients contained in each repast, good judgment should prevail above the desire for any singularly predominant element. Even resolution itself.