Tough break for your buddy. No amount of room treatment was going to tame that tweeter.
A principle guiding the wise audiophile life
There is one law, or best said a principle, guiding the wise audiophile life :
What matter is not the gear pieces price or his design, it is up to our budget limit to pick the right stuff for ourselves and our needs.
What matter is the way we installed together the mechanical,electrical and acoustical working dimensions of any chosen system/room...
As a consequence of this principle this is his corollary:
The mechanical electrical and acoustical controls,devices,tweaks, parameters, cannot be replaced by one another if we want to reach an optimal result in sound quality.
Vibrations/resonance controls cannot replace or be replaced by acoustics parameters controls or EMI shielding and grounding for example.
The greatest error we can do is buying and just "plug and play". Then upgrading a piece part by frustration or dissatisfaction, without learning how the whole system may,must,can behave in a specific room for our specific ears (psycho-acoustics).
The other error will be to cure one problem with a gear upgrade before trying to understand what is the problem.
This must be meditated by any beginners before "upgrading" and after "upgrading"...
There is no relation between a piece of gear or a system/room before and after his optimal mechanical,electrical and acoustical installation. None.
It is the reason why reviews do not tell all the truth there is to be tell ...
This resume what i have learned.
What have you learned yourself ?
Showing 2 responses by kerrybh
@p05129 +1. Well stated. There are no perfect components, every design incorporates compromises. Better equipment means the ceiling for your system is higher, you have greater potential. A room with poor acoustics will surely prevent even a superbly designed system from getting close to its potential. Paying attention to acoustics allows equipment to perform at a level much closer to its ceiling. No amount of acoustic improvements, however, can raise that ceiling or overcome the compromises inherent in the design or parts used in the equipment-that can't happen because the limitations are baked in. I agree with @ghdprentice that truly significant increases in equipment quality usually means better sound and more money. Certainly, there are poorly designed pieces that cost more and less expensive equipment that delivers nice value. Its great that we live in a time where you can construct a really satisfying system without spending an inordinate amount of money. Even so, the adage that you usually get what you pay for turns out to be true. I recently saw a comment to a YouTube video touting cheap gear wherein this fellow declared that his $5,000 speakers would perform as well as ANY $50,000 speakers. My first thought was, how did he find time to listen to all those speakers? My next thought was, if that was true, there would be no $50,000 speakers. We can all be too competitive about audio. There is no "best" system. The real deal is putting something together within our respective means that gets you to a joyful place with the music. That place is different for all of us. |