Is live reproduction the goal of audio?

Ok

I want you to describe the perfect way to grill a steak. 1) best piece of meat. 2) spices 3) hot BBQ.....4) you get the funtion and I can teach most.

Audiogon and structure

Well in order to grill steak. 10 onces...34939429348283939929292 molecules. gravity stable. Born in russia and fed in US. Grain fed and was allowed to "free range" .....who cares. If you can't cook it to perfection . Burned steak is crap.

If the end result connects me emotionally to the music, and I can transfer the intentions of the composer, musician(s), engineer and producer, so that an honest, accurate, representation of the event, live or otherwise, is conveyed, then the combination of recording, media, system, time, place and mood have achieved their goal, and I am happy.

Stevecham

Hey dude.

I know i sound like some machine on a machanical or mathematical end.

Eating boiled steak can emotionally connect you to life too. Grilled steak has a purpose. Boiled has one too,only we are audiophiles who practice hi-fi. Just because you produce sound doesn't make you a practitioner.

To just say conveys 100% emotion. If you don't involve 100% of the art "hi-fi" you won't convey the maximum anything.

This is the equivalent of buying a car and joining the mechanics of Ferrari and all race car drivers site....and asking how do they cope with traffic and do they also put candy in thier ashtrays.

I always wonder how I got this brown nose....

I always wonder how I got this brown nose....

Yeah, I had to get out my hip-waders a while ago.

What's all this crap about par-boiled steaks and race car mechanics. Y'er loosing me C5150. Practicioners of the high-art of the kingdom of audiophiledom?! Do I get a gold, jewel-encrusted ring with the seal of the brotherhood emblazoned atop? I tell you, the more I've gotten that far obsessed in this hobby, the more I pity those who actually stay there - at least for me, it takes me so far away from the actual music itself which was the whole reason I got into it in the first place. I suppose there is enjoyment to be had at the level of the gear and tweaking, but for me that pales in comparison to the music. Perhaps for others it is of equal or greater enjoyment. I'd just like to get it out of the way and get on with the music. Still, I have a very low tolerance for mediocrity. I guess I try to keep the former in balance, but every once in a while I notice myself getting obsessed with the minutia and not enjoying the music and I have to go take a cold shower and flog myself with a barbed wire whip, then roll around in rock-salt. Works for me. Perhaps I should follow that all up by getting aged fillet mignon and boiling it till it's grey.

Marco