tuatara
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full agreement.
Most recommendations(including some of my own
) fail to take into account the 2 single biggest influences on what we hear back from the recording.
A/The recording itself,mastering, format etc
B/ source.
Unless you're listening to the same recordings/source then anything you hear downstream is never going to be the same as the next listener even using the same amp/phones.
The differences can be subtle or huge but means that any review can never be taken as an absolute.
| Originally Posted by java /img/forum/go_quote.gif A large number of posts, posted here, have a headphone amp/headphone combination recommended, a lesser number have a recommended cable, and a few even recommended source and interconnects; I like this and that combination for the following reasons - Has more leeway, than; This and that form a great sounding/killer combination - No either/or .... All those posts create expectations/bias/misconceptions/perceptions which lead to the myths by implication ... 
Very few posts made say this is possibility, this another, and this yet another, ... , just the way people write/talk/communicate ... Very few people take time to consider the implied content of their communications, whatever form they take .... , also very few take into consideration that none of us stand in the same spot as the other fellow, therefore what each sees/hears/experiences might be close to the other guys perceptions, but never identical ... Not many folks give the other guy some leeway, or realize that the whole is made up of lots of little pieces, gathered here and there and somewhere else, and so it goes on, and on and on, and ... 
I guess what it all boils down to, is that most stuff written here, is not qualified one way or the other ...  ( |
full agreement.
Most recommendations(including some of my own
A/The recording itself,mastering, format etc
B/ source.
Unless you're listening to the same recordings/source then anything you hear downstream is never going to be the same as the next listener even using the same amp/phones.
The differences can be subtle or huge but means that any review can never be taken as an absolute.
