So we must live in an audio gulag, dark and devoid of color? This is what we must strive for.
Do you cook, or better yet, do you eat? Does everything you eat meet this level of true fidelity, devoid of seasoning?
Hearing is a sense, so is taste, why should they be different? Why should we sacrifice pleasure?
How is this fidelity (being faithful) to humanity? Why does this noble quest for fidelity seem more like a crusade?
You buy a tomato for making pasta gravy , it better be a known quantity ( taste the same as last time) the basil better taste like basil and not be some funky misfit. If I’m cooking I need ‘ fidelity ‘ in terms of my ingredients.
If I’m working in a high end restaurant I’m making the same dish all night, it better be high ‘ fidelity ‘ compared to the my last else I will be sacked.
I’d not dare tell chef “ oh but I thought I’d do it a bit diffrent this time, why sacrifice pleasure “ he would likely throw a big knife at me. ( he wants fidelity to his original recipe)
The aim of the electronics in a ( and the clues in the name) Hifi system is .... , now if you want to funk with what you have go ahead but don’t go thinking it’s somehow a truer reflection of what came from the artist .
If I make a pineapple taste like a lemon, is it then a lemon , if it’s really lemony is it a better lemon than a lemon.. no it’s a messed up pineapple lol
The only gulag here is the one your forcing us to live in with this kind of argument dynamic, the guys here hate it so don’t get upset when some of the more industrial ones cry bullshit.
This is a tired merry go round that no one here is at all intrested in, they don’t want this same discussion again and again let alone given over with zero ‘evidence ‘ or (new) constructive reasoning .There’s mystery all around, what fidelity means is not one of them nor is how to achieve it though electronics and transducers .