The chain of events in my opinion are:
*The quality of the recording/quality of the music (Yes, a lot of the rock we love sucks in terms of recording quality)
*The play back source! source! source! source! No Pandora!
*The amplification (I hate to say this but we might need to bring back bass and treble / loudness controls) to atone for poor system synergy)
*loudspeakers (the end of the chain the loudspeakers are often the most innocent)
The passive loudspeaker merely does as she's told, usually
Then throw in these monkey wrenches:
*System synergy which should not be an issue as you have already figured this out
*poor unstable room acoustics (man this is a big one!)
*wrong mood / wrong music genre ... if I had to only listen to country you damn well bet I wouldn't be an audiophile anymore!
*The recording arts adjustments / re adjustments to fit new formats: 1000 page book to be written here
*The brain and your ears. If you can see the jazz band the sound makes more sense to the brain if you are merely staring at some Darth vader black boxes you're missing 9/10 of the experience by not seeing the double bass and sweaty horns and it is this reason I feel that speakers should look good otherwise what ya got...9/10th the experience... If you see the players your brain thinks it sounds better even if it doesn't.
Build your system starting with the amplifier.. Buy the best one you can afford.
If you're digital buy the best DAC you can afford
If you're analog buy the best cartridge you can afford and and a good TT Get a reel to reel so you can play for 3 straight hours without needing a jocky!
*pour yourself a nice Aberfeldy 21 sit back and listen while admiring the beautiful rack of gear look left and right at the beautiful transducers and think..it's great to be alive.
Q
*The quality of the recording/quality of the music (Yes, a lot of the rock we love sucks in terms of recording quality)
*The play back source! source! source! source! No Pandora!
*The amplification (I hate to say this but we might need to bring back bass and treble / loudness controls) to atone for poor system synergy)
*loudspeakers (the end of the chain the loudspeakers are often the most innocent)
The passive loudspeaker merely does as she's told, usually
Then throw in these monkey wrenches:
*System synergy which should not be an issue as you have already figured this out
*poor unstable room acoustics (man this is a big one!)
*wrong mood / wrong music genre ... if I had to only listen to country you damn well bet I wouldn't be an audiophile anymore!
*The recording arts adjustments / re adjustments to fit new formats: 1000 page book to be written here
*The brain and your ears. If you can see the jazz band the sound makes more sense to the brain if you are merely staring at some Darth vader black boxes you're missing 9/10 of the experience by not seeing the double bass and sweaty horns and it is this reason I feel that speakers should look good otherwise what ya got...9/10th the experience... If you see the players your brain thinks it sounds better even if it doesn't.
Build your system starting with the amplifier.. Buy the best one you can afford.
If you're digital buy the best DAC you can afford
If you're analog buy the best cartridge you can afford and and a good TT Get a reel to reel so you can play for 3 straight hours without needing a jocky!
*pour yourself a nice Aberfeldy 21 sit back and listen while admiring the beautiful rack of gear look left and right at the beautiful transducers and think..it's great to be alive.
Q