"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"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.

Not at all. The error of identity is made by the
listener, not by the system. As a a part of my recorded
arts training material I have a huge amount of recordingd made
to asses listener perception. Can you differentiate between
a cor Anglais and an oboe, or an alto and tenor saxophone
or an Eb and Bb clarinet, a trumpet/cornet/flugel horn,
playing in the same range, Arny?

I would put a pound to a penny that you cannot:-)


Iain