In article , Keith G
wrote:

The problem here is the 'producers' (pros/retired pros/self-styled pros
who aren't really pros/wannabee pros who never will be pros) can't even
create a neutral product. Never mind that they should try to dictate
what we, the consumers, do with it once we've bought it....

Indeed. The snag, though, is that the results vary from one CD/LP/broadcast
to another. I don't listen and think I can hear 'valves' or 'DHT' or 'solid
state'. I want each LP/CD/broadcast to sound as I'd expect for the
individual source.

The odd thing is that despite all the arguments, and the only valve in my
systems being a CRT for the display for video where appropriate, the
results tend to sound like music to me, and I enjoy them.

My experience is that when I listen to something like a prom from the RAH
it sounds to me a lot like what I heard when I attended them in person. So
much so that listening to the music gives me great pleasure. I don't seem
to need any valves, etc, to get this result.

Slainte,

Jim

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