"Keith G" wrote in message


No, you're missing the point - the job of a hifi system
is to try and convince you that 'you are there' (as *one*
here would once have had it) - ie create an illusion of
'reality'.

So far, so good.

On a really good system, the sound is to try
and recreate a realistic illusion of, say, a viola well
enough that you don't confuse it with the sound you would
expect to hear from a violin.

Straw man argument. An audio system has to be really bad to confuse a
knowlegable person that a violin is a viola and vice versa.

But please save yourself the effort and don't bang on
about 'differences' between amplifiers, especially SS
amps (of which I have and use 3 on a daily basis) - I
have never said anything *other* than they sound the
'same'! My personal hobby horses are 'vinyl vs, digital'
and 'horns' vs. 'normal speakers' - both of which are
distinctly different to my ears, as are the differences
between various phono carts....

Trying desperately to get your mind to hold steadily onto your origional
thought Keith...

By what means does adding randomly-selected noise and distortion to a
recording improve its ability to create an illusion of reality?

What concert hall comes with built-in LP tics?