Audiophilepure

Circling back to my initial points about imperfections, and that all designs possess them—why else keep pushing the envelope?—it’s interesting to think about how, throughout audio history, certain memorable designs have identifiable shortcomings that don’t greatly detract from their overall excellence. I’ll cite the original Quad electrostatic speaker, the Rogers L3/5A mini-monitor, and the Audio Research SP6 preamp as examples of designs that so wonderfully capture the gestalt of the music that we’re able to live with and listen past their imperfections, because they are so very good at drawing us into and conveying the music.

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