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Is the Audiophile trying to perfectly capture the recording, warts and all, or is it an effort to make a system that renders the recordings 'better'?
Very good question. 😀
Listening to a bad music system is like reading a book with half the words blanked out, or a badly focused photograph.
You can sort of tell what's going on but you the miss a lot of the detail.
I like systems that present as much of the original info as possible in the way the artists/producers/engineers intended.
It's then up to me to decide whether I like the music or not. That's the important bit.
My cousin is a Sound Engineer, they use the same speakers all over the world in recording studios, Yamaha somethings (IIRC) so that wherever you are you always have a reference.
Yamaha NC10's. I posted something about them on a thread where some muppet reckoned the Japanese couldn't make quality speakers. Very detailed and revealing speakers. BBC LS3/5A's are another.
The only thing that I can remember having any affect on mains were special plugs with components built in to help prevent spikes and switching noise from other devices on the mains.
If you need a magic mains cable (that you could never identify in a blind A/B) to make your hi-fi sound good the PSU's in your components are inadequate of doing what they were designed for so I would get rid of them ASAP.
Great article from SOS about NS10's:
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