This invokes memories of Heathrow Hi Fi show c.198?. We went into a very
small room where an old foreign man was demo-ing his arm (turntable that
is). He played an old Ella mono LP from ancient times. She was in the room -
it sounded absolutely wonderful. Unfortunately the arm was way out of our
price-range - but I'll never forget that magic moment.
Now I occasionally play vinyl via my old Linn-Ittok-Asak combination and it
still sound "musical". Hard to explain but after 10 minutes or so the
instruments have that certain sound.........
Going on to CD.......... Well, my set-up seems to sound better than the
Lin - or does it? Never quite sure.
Wonderful music!


--
John the West Ham fan


"Andy Evans" wrote in message
ups.com...
Whatever any theories about 'absolute fidelity' say or don't say, back
in the real world some things about systems stand out - with some it's
bass, treble or mids, others it's transparency and detail, and so
forth. I'm one of those guys who's always been very sensitive to the
timbre of acoustic instruments, having been a musician for many years,
and this would apply to anyone that regularly hears live instruments in
the studio or concert hall (or kids practising...). By some fortuitous
combination of circumstances my present system has turned out - despite
some glaring flaws - to be quite uncanny in reproducing the timbre of
instruments.
This isn't a question about fidelity in general, it's precisely about
timbre - what systems or componants can you name that have, for you, an
uncannily realistic portrayal of timbre? I'm interested if there's any
pattern to how to achieve this. Andy