Audiophilepure

Devices that ‘flavor’ music with their own timbre can make different recordings all sound too much the same. In those scenarios, we end up listening to the gear rather than the music. This is critical (and we often don’t pay enough attention to this). Each recording should sound like a completely different soundscape with the unique experiences buried deep within the performances. We want to hear music as the artists and recording engineers intended for us to hear.

Like many, I’ve previously fallen into the trap of having systems that colored the sound. It makes the performer become secondary to the system. That’s just wrong. We become so comfortable with the way our individual system sounds because it makes everything sound a certain way. That isn’t real life. No two recordings should sound the same. This is the work and reasoning behind Merrill’s way of thinking. Color, timbre, and character should be left to the performers—the way it was intended. All of these nuances can be revealed to the listener, regardless of musical genre with the ELEMENTs. This is the brilliance behind design engineers that strive to get out of the way of the music.

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