Hi-fi story

I once owned a rather good Hi-fi system, with automatic pullout turntable, a seven cassette magazine, all fully programmable; but it was the large three cone Pye manufactured speakers that gave the sound system such – in French - ‘de bonne qualité’ - or in the Deutsch - ‘gute Qualität’. They were speakers that gave a real loud ‘nice’ natural sound; the thing was though, with that level of sonically pure response, you kind of relaxed into the sonic media a tad too much, you could almost forget you were listening to music, let alone a recording of such.

So now what I want from a speaker and a Hi-fi system is as follows: A slight remove from sonic perfection, I still want a lot of clear bass, mid-range, and treble, but I want a machined simulacra reality to shine through the sound, sort of a perverse thrill at what I’m listening too, is a product of the human capacity to distract by art, though good for the smiling yet perhaps sad soothed soul, is art distraction, and especially the art distraction of the ‘likeness’ fields, good for our whole being/ the life of a ‘sound’ mind?