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| Questions about Resolving Systems What we need is a system that reveals all the good characteristics of good recordings, but then detects bad recordings and "fixes them up." | |
| Questions about Resolving Systems @hilde45 I'm coming around to that realization more and more, that ultimate realism isn't a realistic goal, but there are certain presentations that come across as enjoyable and appropriate, as you say they make me feel at home. I've run in to p... | |
| Law Of Diminishing Returns? I think what sets my threshold for diminishing returns lower than many other audiophiles on this forum has to do with unrealistic expectations on my part. Just to throw out a number, I’ll say that an affordable system for me will get me 65% toward... | |
| Questions about Resolving Systems @hilde45 Thanks for the links. The uncanny is an interesting topic. The term gets applied to CGI graphics, which can be simultaneously impressive and disappointing. I'll admit I didn't see the connection to my post at first, but the idea that so... | |
| Sold a component and bought it back, am I nuts? What a deal! You might be bananas, but you're not nuts. | |
| Shifting center image and recommendations on an approach I have had this kind of problem before and in my case it came down to bad speaker cable connections at the amp. The bare multi-strand wire seemed to be able to deform over time and cause the binders to get loose. I'd crank them down real tight an... | |
| Questions about Resolving Systems I’ve been thinking about the word "resolving" and had a visual experience that inspired me. I was sitting at a stop light with a freight truck in front of me. It had a round tail light composed of an array of little red LEDs in what looked like an... | |
| Technical assistance and recommendations needed @nonoise I'm really intrigued with that Technics. It sounds like a drastic improvement over the early Panasonic amps, which despite their low cost seemed to be doing something right in a way I'd never quite heard before. @kenjit I've heard re... | |
| Technical assistance and recommendations needed @nonoise Interesting. I haven’t heard the SUG700 described as bright, but definitely not warm. Thin and light is what I read from various reviews and it matched closely with my impression of earlier, similar amps made by the same parent company.... | |
| Technical assistance and recommendations needed I've read the technics SUG700 is a very good integrated but I've not heard anybody describe that as warm sounding, more light and lean. I'd try auditioning a different integrated amp before giving up on your speakers. I've not used that particular... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? One thing I haven’t heard many complaints about are audio systems or components that over exaggerate depth effects. I do hear about them over exaggerating width from time to time. Imagine a dac that makes instruments that should just be a little ... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? @rodman99999 Naysayers are on both sides in this argument. They also argue that it cannot be their imagination so they don’t care what a double blind test shows - that they can’t really hear what they’re perceiving. I don’t call it their imagina... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? @cey Are you not merely defining people who enjoy high quality audio as more perceptive? If not, how do you know? I read that Paul Klipsch hired people to do blind testing, and found that some of them were very perceptive to subtle differences... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? @hypoman Visual is a huge part of discerning depth for me, and in general making sense of what I'm hearing. If I can see that I'm in a small room my brain will try to interpret whatever I hear in a way that can fit into that small space. David G... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? Thanks for clarifying the use of the Nikon camera’s microphone. You had mentioned that but I didn’t make the connection to it also being the audio source. Is it the camera’s built-in mic. or a separate mic. you attached? I can hear the stereo sepa... |