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Mmmmm. M. Good enough to eat : )

Thank you, I might just try that. My point was more that this is all a matter of personal taste. It's impossible to objectively prove the superiority of one system over another. We are victims of our evolutionary inheritance which was more concerned with efficient survival than aesthetic absolutes so our perception is just good enough to help us evade predators and no better. Our sensoria certainly gets nowhere near capturing objective reality in all its glory so have no basis for judging whether one system can capture reality better than another. Atoms are resolved in the lab using a mechanical stylus and light cannot resolve the grooves on an LP, we need electron microscopes for that. It's not a resolution issue, its not a technology issue, it's a taste issue. I like digital sources and class D amplifiers. I also like analogue replay via single ended valve amps. The important thing is not the precision nor the the technology, it's creating a satisfactory experience. Over the years I have built all sorts of speakers, some really good and some which should have stayed in the dark. One weekend I built a dipole speaker with a transmission line bass. I goofed with the crossover and had a frequency balance problem. I was about to turn the amp turn it off and dig out the soldering iron when Stevie Nicks started to sing. There she was in my room in all her vibrant luscious heartbreaking glory. It took my breath away. To this day I deeply regret tearing down that build as I have never heard Fleetwood sound so good since, and that includes the live concert two weeks ago in London. Some things may be wrong, but better.

Sound reproduction is a crude form of VR. It's severely bandwidth and data rate limited. I note also that computation and perception processes are linked in many ways. I look forward to the days when advanced computation can simulate the sound of a Decca London playing on a Goldring Lenco with perfect fidelity, but then I am a little perverse.

Yo Cycleman and thank you for your kindness. I guess we may share a meme or two as I also see elitism as a fatal perception error. Contention is fine, it just means one cares deeply.

It doesn't matter. Aesthetic taste is definitively a personal matter and there is no objectively correct answer. Physiologically and psychologically we all have unique responses to stimulus. The may be objectively small differences at a physical and psychological level but over time each individual develops preferences that become significant to us and these preferences affect our subjective experience by reinforcing our sensitivity to these differences. We each experience the world through these filters and believe this filtered sensoria to be real.When we meet someone with a different perspective derived from their unique set of filters we can react as though that person is wrong, in denial, perverse etc. there is no objective reality that we can perceive, only our own reality which is unique to us. Going to put some BB King on the system and chill. It's all blues in the end.