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Axiomatically, audiophile audio is about quality of reproduced sound. Experientially though—for me at least—it’s about visions in the mind’s eye. The older I get, the more attentively I listen to recordings, the more importance I assign to the myriad moving pictures I see between my speakers.

As I walk about my garden under the dome of city noise and sky, the mixed sounds that enter my brain are of two types: those whose source is within my field of vision, and those I

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