Reply to Joseph L Monzo

>> I don't know if I can be said to have "accepted" 1/1-5/4-4/3-3/2-7/4
and
>> "discarded" 1/1-5/4-21/16-3/2-7/4. Both chords contain a 21/16 interval
>> that is best tempered away. Even better than 12-tET for this is
>> (surprise) 22-tET, due to its better 7/6 and 7/4. Alternative rockers
of
>> the future, take note!

>And what do you mean by "a 21/16 interval that is best tempered
>away"? Is that implying that there's something intrinsically
>wrong with the JI versions? Or that the ET versions are intrinsically
>better?

In terms of not having badly mistuned consonances, the ET versions (and an
infinite number of conceivable non-ET tunings) sound better than the JI
versions. I prefer a few mildly mistuned consonances to one badly mistuned
one.