I love being seduced. I'm shocked to learn that not everyone does. The very qualities in live music that excite and intoxicate me are denigrated by many audiophiles as "colorations." It would seem they prefer the lean, chilly sound that they've dubbed "accurate." While I concede that almost all of their preferred audio components have ever-more-extended high frequencies, I'm not certain that that's the same thing as having greater accuracy. It sounds to me&mdash;to use Stravinsky's description of electronic music&mdash;"spayed for overtone removal." The overtones that <I>I</I> miss are those stripped from the middle ranges&mdash;the ones the clinical crowd (footnote 1) disparagingly refers to as the "warmth" region.

I love being seduced. I'm shocked to learn that not everyone does. The very qualities in live music that excite and intoxicate me are denigrated by many audiophiles as "colorations." It would seem they prefer the lean, chilly sound that they've dubbed "accurate." While I concede that almost all of their preferred audio components have ever-more-extended high frequencies, I'm not certain that that's the same thing as having greater accuracy. It sounds to me&mdash;to use Stravinsky's description of electronic music&mdash;"spayed for overtone removal." The overtones that <I>I</I> miss are those stripped from the middle ranges&mdash;the ones the clinical crowd (footnote 1) disparagingly refers to as the "warmth" region.

I love being seduced. I'm shocked to learn that not everyone does. The very qualities in live music that excite and intoxicate me are denigrated by many audiophiles as "colorations." It would seem they prefer the lean, chilly sound that they've dubbed "accurate." While I concede that almost all of their preferred audio components have ever-more-extended high frequencies, I'm not certain that that's the same thing as having greater accuracy. It sounds to me&mdash;to use Stravinsky's description of electronic music&mdash;"spayed for overtone removal." The overtones that <I>I</I> miss are those stripped from the middle ranges&mdash;the ones the clinical crowd (footnote 1) disparagingly refers to as the "warmth" region.

I love being seduced. I'm shocked to learn that not everyone does. The very qualities in live music that excite and intoxicate me are denigrated by many audiophiles as "colorations." It would seem they prefer the lean, chilly sound that they've dubbed "accurate." While I concede that almost all of their preferred audio components have ever-more-extended high frequencies, I'm not certain that that's the same thing as having greater accuracy. It sounds to me&mdash;to use Stravinsky's description of electronic music&mdash;"spayed for overtone removal." The overtones that <I>I</I> miss are those stripped from the middle ranges&mdash;the ones the clinical crowd (footnote 1) disparagingly refers to as the "warmth" region.

I love being seduced. I'm shocked to learn that not everyone does. The very qualities in live music that excite and intoxicate me are denigrated by many audiophiles as "colorations." It would seem they prefer the lean, chilly sound that they've dubbed "accurate." While I concede that almost all of their preferred audio components have ever-more-extended high frequencies, I'm not certain that that's the same thing as having greater accuracy. It sounds to me&mdash;to use Stravinsky's description of electronic music&mdash;"spayed for overtone removal." The overtones that <I>I</I> miss are those stripped from the middle ranges&mdash;the ones the clinical crowd (footnote 1) disparagingly refers to as the "warmth" region.

"<I>A thing divine&mdash;for nothing natural I ever saw so noble.</I>"

"<I>A thing divine&mdash;for nothing natural I ever saw so noble.</I>"

<I>Cary Audio Design founder Dennis Had is largely responsible for popularizing single-ended amplifiers in America. Since appearing on the scene in 1989, Cary Audio Design has forged its own niche in the high-end audio industry. I spoke with Dennis Had about how he got started building amplifiers, and why he's so committed to single-ended triode designs.</I>