and yet…. some critics of dreams…. also seem to dream of BAACH boxes….
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It is not so simple division as that :
A trivial common place fact distinction is useless here . Sorry... 😁
it takes me 6 months at full time to understand how work the AKG K340 headphone hybrid complex design and modify it to reach ectasy ...understanding matter sorry ... Embeddings mechanical,electrical and acoustical controls devices are not gadgets we could buy only and in all case, we can and must make our own sometimes and they ask for basic understanding... ( i created my own shielding plate ) I modified my small speakers porthole because i understand Helmholtz resonators perhaps better than the Chinese designer who anyway had no choice because of cost selling them with no bundle of various tubes size, some 3 feet length behind the small speakers to improve them immensely as i did (50 hertz clear and no distortion with a 4 inches woofer ) ... 😊 I modified the not so well designed waveguide too ...
Here you misread my posts i admired any designer of High end as such... I did not admired people who use price tags for definition of audiophile experience ...
To enjoy any system we can read the price tag and call it job done and sleep with the music... my definition of enjoying imply basic acoustic knowledge and consciousness ... Why ? Because without it we cannot be conscious of the objective reason why we enjoy the S.Q. save for the price tag and others opinion about the gear... I need to understand what is "timbre" , transients, listener envelopment, sound source width, crosstalk negative impact, reverberation time, absorption and reflective ratios and diffusion effects , location of tuned resonators, and ionization and schumann generators impact etc etc etc ... I need to understand concretely with my ears the varying parameters i could control to increase my joy to reach full consciouness about the optimal experience with any design i can buy ... Buying upgrades is not my definition of audiophile hobby... Creativity+basic concrete knowledge of acoustics is ... Now i listen music a new hobby of mine satisfied with no frustration at all in spite of the limitations of my system which work optimally at his highest level this was make possible by my past hobby in acoustics...I did not need to buy 100,000 bucks of gear to reach minimal acoustic satisfaction threshold ... Trust me the maximal threshold cost a lot more ... 😊
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@mahgister I appreciate your response. To each their own, I can enjoy music or a car without knowing all the details of how they work. I may not have the mental capacity or patience to understand the how. I hear differences in systems and understand it’s my individual preference. I can enjoy a record without knowing all the details of how the cartridge, tonearm and phono stage work. I am an avid car enthusiast and driver, I can’t do a break job. I can detail them and exploit their mechanical grip.
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I can enjoy Bach in a bad car radio... But i need to hear the church acoustic out of my head with my headphone or the speakers filling the room out of my head if i use headphone... I used acoustics to modify them and optimize them ... No need to any knowledge to enjoy music... But i wanted to have audiophile experience without breaking my low budget... i succeeded because i am retired and do it full time few years ... Anybody can if he invest time studying and experimenting with the right chosen gear for sure ... i dont know any low cost headphone i could enjoy save the one i optimized... We must pick the right gear to begin with, not necessarily the costlier one; the gear we can optimize and modify... i am not interested in car mechanics at all but i was fascinated by acoustics not mere room acoustic all acoustics knowledge for sure ... ( my wife drive the car by the way 😊 )
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