I wrote:
How do you measure sweet sound, bloom, and all the qualities which characterize the sound made by excellent audio equipment?
KC responded:
Here we go again...
but seriously, dude, it's just sound waves. Compression waves, even, if you will. There's no mystical "music wave" that some things can't reproduce. It's just waves travelling in an air medium. If an audio component can successfully reproduce sound at all frequencies, it can reproduce the timbre of a musical instrument.
PMB concluded:
A microphone connected to a spectrum analyzer. It's not rocket science for goodness sake.
I know that JohnK, PMB, KC, Adam and the reductionist/positivist crowd believe that a $10 CD player will reproduce music as well as any other CDP because, afer all, they're just 1 and 0s, that all amps which have the same specs sound the same ...
Those who bother to listen know better.
