OCD mickey website and negativity.

I learned reading your posts that you are a very sensible and sensitive person... It is better than high I.Q.  with no heart intelligence... Then dont be too harsh on yourself  ...

My very best to you ...

I enjoy his videos when they short and to the point and filled with commentary about audio components all the extra rhetoric is very very annoying.

Brilliant minds work differently than the rest of us I guess. Although being blissfully ignorant with a low IQ like me has its advantages to.

What OCD mickey said here is true completely from my limited experience and very important then i believe you about OCD mickey tcutter  :

“Unless you can have a dedicated listening room, especially if you need to share the room with family and you musnt have speakers in to the room , etc, then realize you can take things only so far. Not as far as with a listening room, so make it good and stop there. no expense on equipment can make up for poor room positioning or acoustics. You can still get much enjoyment, and everyone will understand why you keep it sensible and conservative.”

No harm...

Anyway you are right about my syntax and style and right about Joyce...

My best to you...

@mahgister I did make a mistake. I should have said James Joyce at his most stream-of-conscious best!  Read Ulysses twice.  Still have a hard time with it.  Who am I to argue with one of the greatest authors?  Maybe Infinite Jest is the better analogy; more footnotes than Dante's Divine Comedy.

 

I cannot fault your post observation...😁

I will try to improve ...😊

But perhaps it will suit me more to be a lesser James Joyce ...😁

Thanks anyway for your caring ...😊

My best to you for sure and the warmest welcome ...

@mahgister, why not type out your thoughts in your native language, then run it through an English translator, followed up with something like Grammarly( literal translations can still be confusing). You’re more difficult to follow than James Joyce at his most stream-of-conscious worst!

Acoustics experiments was not a "dumb hobby"... Nor was my experiments in headphone or speakers modifications...

It is "related to an old guy" though yes, because i had plenty of time to do it being retired...

All my system cost is 1000 bucks... All my experiments costed nothing  or very low amount, all being homemade with discarded materials or peanuts costs devices  then all  "old guy" here are not "with more money than sense" ... But some  here have less brain than anything else for sure...

Really, who cares? It’s just a dumb hobby mostly related to old guys with more money than sense.

oups!

I am not so sure his videos will interest me after reading this...

I trust hilde45... Then i will not investigate mike youtube... Time is precious...

hilde45

You’ll definitely want to watch the recent one where he "baits" people on this forum, calling them out by their handle, and claiming that they post so often on the forum that they have no life, are liars, or are professional shills for the big Audio Industry.

That’s just creepy. Thanks for pointing it out, @hilde45.

The difference is that you hear the grasshooper or not....

But hearing the listener envelopment acoustic factor (LV)  in a room  with a balanced auditory source width (ASW) must be experimented and learned one step at a time. Because it is related to many parameters of frequencies, sound pressure levels and inter aural cues and correlation and other acoustics factors...Here we hear and learn to hear in an incremental controllable way...

In audio we dont buy costlier upgrade  to hear better as most do ... We learn how to hear and how to listen to begin with  to spare our money on pieces of gear BEFORE  we had  mastered acoustical,electrical and mechanical basic embeddings  workings controls of the system.

I dont need and dont listen to many reviewers...

I dont buy and dont need to... 😊

But i like the answers of Mikepowellaudio here... I will keep his youtube as an interesting listening. I like sincerity frankness and opinions which may differ from mine if well argued for ...

Thanks to him for his answers...

All reviewers focus on their favorite gear pieces...

All reviewers differ in their ultimate choices...

For me, basic synergy between gear pieces first, then electrical,mechanical and acoustical installation, implementation, optimization, modification matter more that the choice of specific gear and their price tag... ( one piece can be synergetical with many others possible pieces or not for sure then synergy come first)

I am in what some call low-fi with my actual speakers-headphone system...

It is not even wrong to say that about my system but it is debatable , my AKG K340 modified is not low fi at all for example even if his price tag correspond to low fi gear pieces.......😊

But the minimal acoustical satisfaction threshold is enough when it is reached to put you on ectasy...And creativity increase your pride and make you pity many of those who own higher costlier system because some are very good and better yes but many not so much better than yours... 😁 Sorry for the unconfortable truth...

Most people dont know how to make it happen, then the only solution for them is a race toward upgrades toward High Fi higher cost...They forgot music  to focus on sound problems captured by frustation encountering unbalanced sounds factors and acoustic ignorance. They buy an upgrade before experiments mechanical,electrical and acoustical treatment and cures...

What is pathetic and comical is how bad some very costlier system can be ...

It seems no one take the lesson : What we do with what we buy is more important than what we buy ...

Forget reviewers, it is consumers induced entertainment .... Begin study basic and experiment...😊

I am more attracted by the purely human side of the reviewers...

Or pure scientific acoustics video as those of dr. Choueiri or Toole etc ....

The audio side of these video annoy me generally because i dont need anything really more than what i have... I must be deaf or as some could say ignorant of high end gear...😁😊😉

I smile at these thoughts about me because the sound we listen too convey all acoustics factors, and they are there or not for our satisfaction or for our frustation, they are there relatively optimally considering for sure the specific design quality level of the gear we use and the way we had embed it.

For sure my sound experience with my system/room or headphone is not the TOP in the world but i live already in ectasy... Then... I conclude the way we use the gear matter as much if not more than the gear itself.... My goal was enjoying music without any sound frustation not going to race with no budget limit... I succeeded.

Then i favor the human side of the reviewers if i go listening them , i am attracted by their personality, not by their gear knowledge only or mainly ... ( i love Huff, Guttenberg, cheapaudioman, i will add Jay because in spite of his acoustic knowledge limitation till recently i think he is an interesting honest character, there is others but i dont listen much about audio gear these days because music is there now and my sound is satisfying enough to put me in ectasy)

If i want to know something about sound experience i go elsewhere than listening audio reviewers ...😊

I forgot to say that anyway when i was searching for upgrade with the right piece or buying my first top amplifier for example i search for owners customers  reviews not official reviewers... I read them all BEFORE buying...