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Afledt af de seneste mdr's. endeløse skriverier om hvem der gør hvad og hvilket og hvorfor ikke, osv., vil jeg gerne stille spørgsmålet: hvad vil i med jeres hifi?? Tænkt lidt over det og læs så nedenstående test-indledning. Hvilket produkt der er tale om, er ligegyldigt (nej, det er ikke et kibri produkt!):
The Art of Getting to the Art of the Art
Duke Ellington’s famous saying that there are only two types of music – good music and bad music – is partially incomplete. There is also great music. It seems to me that the point of ultra high performance audio systems is to fully reveal the greatest music and to allow complete immersion into it. While audiophiles tend to be extremely aware of sonics, there tends to less consciousness of aesthetic distortion: to my mind a far greater crime.
Though I toiled in the retail audio industry for 25 years before retiring ten years ago and have been writing about music and reviewing audio components since, I remain an audio apostate. I don’t consider myself an audiophile, am neither a component junkie nor an acolyte of The High End. My evaluation of audio components is strictly utilitarian. I view them purely as tools to open the art of music. Unless a component reveals the aesthetic content of any piece or type of music, it must be judged a failure. If one can’t follow all the rhythms of West African Master Drummers; if Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons sounds like elevator music; if one can’t tell the difference between the Bach-playing of Pablo Casals and that of Bach-loving amateur mathematicians; if one doesn’t understand why a whole generation of music lovers define their spiritual and musical lives as being before-and-after hearing John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix; if the transition in Beethoven’s 5th Symphony from vastation to exultant release doesn’t launch the spirit into the heights, - the system is aesthetically distorting the music.
The greater the artistic quality and complexity of the composition and performance, the greater is the demand on the audio system. I consider the aesthetic education of experiencing the World’s greatest music a prime benefit of our technological age. While the aesthetic behind music from differing cultures can vary it’s also true that there are universal musical patterns and devices used throughout the World’s music. Music truly is a universal language. A sensitive and receptive listener should be able to experience the value of any type of music, provided, of course, that the playback system is fully capable of expressing it.
How directly a component communicates the artistry of the music is a nearly fool-proof criterion for judging the quality of any audio component, system, or musical format. It’s also obvious enough: if you can’t experience the art of the music, what’s the point? A useful tool for judging audio products is to apply the following simple criteria. All any component or system has to do is clearly and unambiguously reproduce WHICH instrument(s) is playing; WHERE it’s playing; WHAT it’s playing, and HOW it’s playing it: leading ultimately to the artistic goal – WHY. This W+W+W+H=Why (more correctly, should = Why) methodological formula enforces a balanced perspective: the WHY of the performance is always paramount in importance. It remains clear that the best components excel at each and every aspect of the formula and that the absolute best open the door to the artistic goals and effects of the music to the fullest.
Paul Szabady
Mr. Szabady rammer rigtigt, hvis i spørger mig. Anmeldere er lette at gennnmskue - skriver de om musikken eller produktet? Er det produktet der kommenteres som det primære, er hjertet ikke med; det er ikke forstået. Get it?