ในคอลัมภ์ As We see it ซึ่ง Steve Guttenberg ลงไว้ใน Stereophile หน้าแรกฉบับ April 09 ชื่อ How high do you want your fi? ผมจะคัดมาเฉพาะบางส่วนนะครับ
Would you really want a perfect hi-fi? When output precisely matches input, have we attained nirvana?
Maybe not. Most CDs and LPs aren't all that transparent, so I'm wondering if our obsession with transparency is misplaced. Soundstage? Not if you listen to rock or jazz-the music's spatial depth low-level ambience, dimensionality, and reverberation are all fabricated in the mix. Dynamics? Sorry, pal-compression, and lots of it, is an integral part of the recording, mixing, and mastering of most of the music you buy.
The music is what we're here for. If it were perfectly reproduced, would we be enjoy it any more? Mark Levinson observed years ago that one of the worst symptoms of the audiophile"disease" is playing only music that sounds good through your system, to the exclusion of the music you love because the latter sounds less good through your system. I've been there; I know firsthand how absurd that is. Listen to music, not your hi-fi.