immatthewj

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High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
Given the preamp and the SACD player that I upgraded to within (I think) the last four years, and the crappy little untreated room that I put them in, I guess I should be disgruntled and dissatisfied. But I am not. It sounds better (even in the ro... 
What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'?
The Merriam define "musical" as harmonious and euphonic experience as HISTORY taught it because thousand of years of successive musicians and acoustician define the territory with experiment and knowledge of what is "musical" experience in music ... 
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
@immatthewj why bother getting a better engine and transmission just make the car faster and better just make it more aerodynamic that will fix all the problems. I was going to leave the analogies out of this, but this is good. Obviously aerod... 
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
I am not sure how you managed to take the "definition of musical" thread and transport it over here to the "synergy of gear" thread, but since you did, and what you have also did is taken the word "musical" which has a concrete meaning (which is ... 
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
that goes beyong the Merriam Webster defin ition by a synonym ... I could stir up a vast hodge-podge of words also, and then spill them all out willy-nilly on to a computer screen, and that too would meet the criteria of "going beyond Mirriam W... 
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
Mirriam webster define as any dictionary a word by another synonymus word ... Musical is defined as euphony or harmonius which are synonyms... What you do is to concoct your own definition for a given term and then state that your definition is... 
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
Am i too complex for your brain ? it seems so.. I don't think that "complex" is the adjective that I would choose.  
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
You put in my mouth the false claim i never said that it is impossible to distinguish between a low cost design and a way better and costlier one ... And you continue to attribute everything that I type to being about you.  
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
I had given many arguments to assert my opinion about what means "musical" ... What you did was typed a lot of undecipherable word salad that you stated was indisputable FACT.  Then you went on to state that Mirriam Webster has it all wrong, bu... 
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
. . . and if one does hear a sonic improvement with better electronics in a bad room--it is obviously due to "confirmation bias." But could confirmation bias ever play a part in how one perceives the effect of his or her high dollar investment in... 
What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'?
@mahgister  Why should I, or why should anyone, accept your word salad as the only definition of "music" and/or "musical" and reject Mirriam Webster?  Please explain.  
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
We do all have opinions. However, some state that their "opinions" are undisputeable facts.   
What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'?
Some Mirriam Webster definitions of "music" : vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony   : the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to pro... 
What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'?
What people choose to play on that equipment is a different matter- some of which some people might regard as musical while others might not. So the topic, IMO, is bit too broad in the context of this thread. Exactly and again, exactly. I gu... 
What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'?
. . . Mirriam Webster lists having the pleasing harmonious qualities of music as one of their definitions for "musical.". Is Mirriam Webster wrong?   Since you tossed about the word "musicality," this is how Mirriam Webster defines that: ...