Okay, I read it. I agree with Peter that there are some interesting topics.
Three things I liked: one, it was readable - scattered but readable (a genuine compliment), two, the account of Stokowski comparing the sound of his orchestra to the sound of it reproduced, and three, Day's mention of listening to live music and wanting his stereo system to sound like that. A worthy prelude.
I understand the article is an opener to future columns where "I'll tell you more...". However, taking it on its own merits...
To make his points, he'd have been better off sticking with his own experiences, interests and personal advocacy rather than offering a series of non sequitars about other people and their systems.
He says a wide listening window is a system "... able to play a wide variety of recorded music from different periods, of different styles, and of varied recording quality". Then claims "many contemporary audio systems fail miserably at having a wide listening window, and can only accomodate a very narrow listening window of superb recordings, or risk sounding decidedly amusical on average recordings of great music." As if someone who premarily enjoys renaissance music and Bach through their Quad electrostatics with a Berning or Roger Modjeski amp has failed.
And "A narrow listening window results in their owners buying the same audiophile recordings over and over again with each new remaster of the same old recording, because that's the only thing that sounds good on their stereo systems." Really? Some people have no life beyond Brothers in Arms ? Let's smack 'em around some more.
There's the waffling hedge between the "live musical experience" and "a valid musical experience."
Is the latter the same as the former? It's okay here to be slippery.
And then that issue Marc approaches, another one Day doesn't seem to have quite settled with himself, namely homogenization. Having a system where recordings of "superb quality" and "average quality" "sound and feel" like a live/valid musical experience. If "musical" here simply means enjoyable, okay, reduction aside.
Dudley without meat rabbits?