"David Looser" wrote in message
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Keith G" wrote


Whatever. One thing the accurists have to fall back on is the
'mastertape'
and the gauged faithfulness to this (fidelity) was frequently thrown into
the arguments as the be-all and end-all of sound reproduction. The reason
for this is that it is fairly easy to *measure* deviation from the
original signal, rules can be made from various measurements and it
therefore becomes a useful weapon.

Well no. The reason is that the mastertape represents the sound that the
sound engineer, record producer, artist etc. agreed was what they wanted
the
record to sound like.


Irrelevant - whatever the mastertape is (or isn't) is not the issue; the
'accuracy vs. realism' argument is....



Where it becomes horse**** in my book is when reference is
continually made to mastertapes that no-one has ever heard (or ever will)

No-one? what about the recording engineer, the producer, the artist etc?


More irrelevancy - they weren't present in the arguments in this group,
AFAIA....



Long rambling story snipped.


Nothing like as long as your 'cinema irrelevancies' which I snipped...



The upshot is my Bezzer is now 8 miles from here, while he checks to see
how well it drives his Altec Lansing behemoth speakers (???) - yet
another
'realism beats accuracy' triumph, I believe,

How do you work that out?, what did your story have to do with either
accuracy or realism?


Because the guy leapt at a 300B SET (over his own SS pre and PP valve monos)
which, as I'm sure you are aware, are slated endlessly in this group for
'distortion' ('broken' even...) but which I maintain provide a more
*realistic* sound - kinda proves my point, doesn't it? Asitappens, he's been
on the phone since to say (verbatim) 'I'm not getting the same, sweet sound
as you get on your Lowthers!' - I'm not surprised, I didn't think he would
but I was willing to let him try!

While I'm on: I have started a ferocious campaign to reduce clutter and am
punting no end of stuff out on eBay - I have 5 auctions on now, including a
set of both Morgan Jones 'Valve Amp' books which may be of interest to
someone he

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MESE:IT&ih=017


Condition *as new*....

(Sorry to say! :-)