Not accurate, but musical?
A playback system is typically intended to hear the music that was recoreded onto the source material. If you do not want to do that 'accurately', how can you expect to hear 'musical'.
The system (or any component therein) that produces any sonic characteric at all of its own is inferior, and does add to the recorded material. It is called distortion.
How can anyone expect for the distortion to result in anything that could be characterised as 'musical', the magazine reviewer 'connesseurs of coloration' notwithstanding. But then they have the task of selling expensive equipment that is actually inferior at accomplishing the task it alleges to fulfill, usually depicted by lousy specs, so they must take the tact that this or that equipment makes your music sound 'better'.
Absurd, irrational, and illogical. Yet they have hooked many a self proclaimed audiophile into their unreasonable deception, and lined their pockets with the proceeds.
Sad, really.
Accurate is good. Always, and in everything.
A playback system is typically intended to hear the music that was recoreded onto the source material. If you do not want to do that 'accurately', how can you expect to hear 'musical'.
The system (or any component therein) that produces any sonic characteric at all of its own is inferior, and does add to the recorded material. It is called distortion.
How can anyone expect for the distortion to result in anything that could be characterised as 'musical', the magazine reviewer 'connesseurs of coloration' notwithstanding. But then they have the task of selling expensive equipment that is actually inferior at accomplishing the task it alleges to fulfill, usually depicted by lousy specs, so they must take the tact that this or that equipment makes your music sound 'better'.
Absurd, irrational, and illogical. Yet they have hooked many a self proclaimed audiophile into their unreasonable deception, and lined their pockets with the proceeds.
Sad, really.
Accurate is good. Always, and in everything.