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    Quote Originally Posted by Haselsh1 View Post
    And what about the other times that the person you are with is not a fucking idiot and none of your suggestions apply...?
    I'll tell you if it ever happens.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RothwellAudio View Post
    I remember visiting one chap who demonstrated the difference in sound when he placed something underneath his CD player. Somehow he seemed oblivious to the fact that the system sounded absolutely horrible either with or without the thing under his CD player.
    My favourite was a shockingly expensive system using, amongst other very pricey trinkets, cable lifters that cost over £100 each. It sounded, by anyone's standard, absolutely piss-poor. You can't beat a hi-fi show if you want a good laugh.
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    if a system sounds good to the person that owns it then its job done. Everyone is different and they may think yours sounds horrible
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    if a system sounds good to the person that owns it then its job done. Everyone is different and they may think yours sounds horrible
    Err.....well, that's a very accommodating attitude and I'm not quite sure how to respond other than to say he played everything so loud - way beyond its capabilities - that the system was well into severe distortion. Yes, if that's what he likes I suppose he is free to enjoy it. Hardly "high fidelity" though.

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    I agree, I think we all hear objectionable distortion the same way. Either the owner of such a system has never heard anything better, which is hard to believe, or they are in denial. I mean if you've spent the thick end of 20 grand and have all the fancy mains leads, the cable lifters, the stainless-steel anti-vibration feet to sit the lap top on, the diffusers made from three types of exotic hardwood and so forth then it has to sound good, doesn't it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    if a system sounds good to the person that owns it then its job done. Everyone is different and they may think yours sounds horrible
    I strongly disagree. Either it's accurate and therefore high fidelity or it isn't.

    I've told this one before but I once had a customer with an Audionote SET amp for repair. I tried it briefly in my system and it was as awful as I expected and I reconnected my own power amps (MF A370 innards made into monoblocks at the time). The customer asked to hear my system when he came to collect his amp and I obliged. After listening for a couple of tracks he said "That sounds dynamic, transparent, excellent slam (blah blah)... I used to work in a recording studio for a while and it reminds both of live music and of the sound I used to hear in the studio control room through the studio monitors... no no I don't like that at all!!"

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    It takes all sorts ........

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    Dont think it matters if its hifi or not as long as the person gets enjoyment from his/her music. That is really all that matters imv. But obviously im in a minority of 1. .... but proud of it
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    Come on Jez, get this thread started, I need cheering up!
    Seriously,I am sure It will be entertaining, as well as [posibly] enlightning to some!
    Quote Originally Posted by Arkless Electronics View Post
    I strongly disagree. Either it's accurate and therefore high fidelity or it isn't.

    I've told this one before but I once had a customer with an Audionote SET amp for repair. I tried it briefly in my system and it was as awful as I expected and I reconnected my own power amps (MF A370 innards made into monoblocks at the time). The customer asked to hear my system when he came to collect his amp and I obliged. After listening for a couple of tracks he said "That sounds dynamic, transparent, excellent slam (blah blah)... I used to work in a recording studio for a while and it reminds both of live music and of the sound I used to hear in the studio control room through the studio monitors... no no I don't like that at all!!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    Dont think it matters if its hifi or not as long as the person gets enjoyment from his/her music. That is really all that matters imv. But obviously im in a minority of 1. .... but proud of it
    No you're not. I agree that if someone enjoys their system that is all that matters. But you can have a very coloured system that is not 'high fidelity' in the strict sense of the term but is still pleasing to listen to and you can have a nasty hard, harsh, distorted mess that clearly isn't.
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