Re: OT - Disturbing Reading and So True

"Peter Wieck" <pfjw@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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http://stereophile.com/asweseeit/1107awsi/

"Audio actually used to have a goal: perfect reproduction of the sound of
real music performed in a real space. That was found difficult to achieve,
and it was abandoned when most music lovers, who almost never heard anything
except amplified music anyway, forgot what "the real thing" had sounded
like. Today, "good" sound is whatever one likes. As Art Dudley so succinctly
said [in his January 2004 "Listening," see "Letters," p.9], fidelity is
irrelevant to music."

There's a word for the philosophy that Dudley is promoting: Solipsism.

Back in the day when there was intelligent life on rec.audio.opinion, one of
the resident gurus who went by the handle JJ, frequently warned about the
intellectual wasteland that solipsism led to.

RATs as a rule should take it to heart - their prevailing mindset nets out
to be solipsism.


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