We recently finished our Florida winter home, a small 750 SQ/F home. We stay here through the winters, my big rig is home in the north. With limited space I assembled a modest system that has 4 ceiling speakers for front and rear and a $250 center channel speaker. The Yamaha AV has internal streamer/DAC. It's set to "all channel" so there is no stereo image. We enjoy it for a background music, and it serves us well and the music is very enjoyable. I get it, there is no critical listening with it, just music. It does reveal that Qobuz sounds far better that Sirius on it and it also still reveals that poor 70's recordings are ...well still poor. I miss the Big Rig, absence makes the heart grow fonder.
LoFi
My sound system is down for repairs (I don’t know for how long). I’m now reduced to listening to music on Alexa’s transmission of WQXR, New York’s classical music station, in LoFi. Surprisingly, I’m getting into the music more easily. Without the distraction of sonic values, I’m able to totally concentrate on the music itself. I don’t need Hifi and soundstaging to “get” the musical message. it brings me back to my youth when I listened on a table radio and first fell in love with music. I find that I now can follow a piece of music from beginning to end more easily.
Not that I’m ready to give up the hobby. Just an interesting observation.
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@thecarpathian Titusville near the Cape. A 55+ community on a golf course. |