Audiophiles and their music preferences!

[desmond]

Originally Posted by Sir Terrence

Personally I like great music recorded well. I am about to stir up some dust here. I believe that two channel recordings no matter how good, are always a bad distortion of a live event. It is spatially impossible to capture a live event with just two channels, so I have never believed that it is the best way to listen to music regardless of the price of the system. We hear binaurally, so surround is really the only way to capture and playback an event accurately. While most audiophiles revere vinyl, I celebrated the day when SACD and DVD-A arrived.

Personally I think any recording distorts live event - I am yet to hear a high end system that can fully reproduce sonic quality of a great concert hall.

I am not the biggest fan of multichannel music - I mostly see it as a work in progress. Also, there is a bunch of historical recordings that will never be available in that format.