"Glenn Richards" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

It's all about *sound quality* and not *signal quality* in my book....

Or, getting back to one of my original points, it's about something called
"musicality"...


Sure, it's covered in my 'sound quality' heading.



What do we spend all this money on hi-fi for anyway? To get orgasmic over
technical specs? To have sexual fantasies about glowing valves? (Well...
some people might!)

Errm, nope. The hi-fi is the means to the end, not the end itself. That
end is the music. And that's the most important thing, which is what
everyone seems to forget when they get bogged down in S:N ratios,
frequency response, linearity, damping factors, or whether cable A sounds
any different to cable B.

The bottom line is that if system B makes the music sound better than
system A, you buy system B. It's as simple as that.


Hmm...

Not necessarily - I passed the point of *perfectly acceptable* sound quality
a long time ago. I continue to fart around with the gear as I find it
interesting in its own right and, yes, I do spend some of the time
'listening to the kit'.

Right this minute I am listening to a spot of early Brahms on kit 75% of
which was built/assembled by mine own fair hand!

Very satisfying!! :-)

Nope, cancel that - wrong amp! OK, 50% then!! :-)