Wally wrote:

Eeyore wrote:

I really sometimes wonder what the audiophool nuts reckon audio
professionals do for a living ?

Maybe they missed the fact that it isn't audiophools who actually
make the recordings, mix them down, master them and press them ? Only
then do the terminally clueless get a chance to think they can
somehow make it better than the original, which may have passed
through a thousand well-designed op-amp stages on its way to its
destination !

Are you saying that all "audio professionals" produce nothing but peerless
recordings which cannot be improved upon?

It's simply anyone's opinion as to whether the original recording was peerless
or not. You can be pretty confident that those ppl doing the job are better at
it than you might be though.

As to improving on it - my opinion is quite simple. You can 'modify' it to suit
your taste but it is what it is, warts and all.

Certainly no particular 'flavour' of circuitry will produce an impeccable result
everytime when fed with varying quality of source material. The method I favour
is to aim for neutrality in reproduction and accept such flaws as exist as they
are rather than try to 'paint them out' and lose all the good bits in the
process.

Graham