Parts quality is so important, I once bought a tweeter upgrade from the Linaeum speaker designer himself. Heard it on my speakers in his design studio. It required a different crossover that he showed me exactly how to build. One resistor, one cap, very simple. Bought the exact parts at Radio Shack, hooked it up, immediately called him up wondering WTF is going on this sounds like crap nowhere near as clear and detailed as what you did!
After some questions to make sure I did it right he asks what parts? Radio Shack. "That’s your problem." So I ordered new parts, exact same values, and instantly heard massive improvement.
The way it works, parts are measured under static load conditions. Music is never static, it is constantly changing. Frequency, amplitude, swinging all over the place all the time. Only way we know to "measure" anything this complex is by listening.
This is exactly the same as the way everyone has 120V AC, or 100 watts per channel, or .3mv output, but yet everyone’s AC, amp and cartridge sounds different. It is all the same, only for some reason hardly anyone seems capable of seeing the patterns.
I think I know the reason. One of em anyway.
https://youtu.be/9oJdG8THofA?t=108
After some questions to make sure I did it right he asks what parts? Radio Shack. "That’s your problem." So I ordered new parts, exact same values, and instantly heard massive improvement.
The way it works, parts are measured under static load conditions. Music is never static, it is constantly changing. Frequency, amplitude, swinging all over the place all the time. Only way we know to "measure" anything this complex is by listening.
This is exactly the same as the way everyone has 120V AC, or 100 watts per channel, or .3mv output, but yet everyone’s AC, amp and cartridge sounds different. It is all the same, only for some reason hardly anyone seems capable of seeing the patterns.
I think I know the reason. One of em anyway.
https://youtu.be/9oJdG8THofA?t=108