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| Why Do Cables Matter? The argument about cables is purely objective from what I can tell. Nobody is arguing against anybody’s subjective experience. We take it for granted. What’s being argued is the technical explanation for that subjective experience. For some reason... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? If someone was curious to hear more clearly what various cables do to the sound, it seems they could be tried with long cable runs, like maybe 100 feet. Surely that would exaggerate whatever change the cable is making compared to another cable of ... | |
| I am just very happy with my system. I’m happy with my system but I feel I shouldn’t be. It’s in what’s supposed to be a temporary experimental setup that’s using a cheap Denon receiver and 3 cheap Sony bookshelf speakers, augmented by a bank of 8 corner loaded bass horns. I just wan... | |
| Anyone else feel like they are “transported” INTO the music One thing I’ve had happen live that I’ve never had happen with a sound system is the music taking over and transforming the space - at least in my mind. I went to see Isaac Stern at our local Hult Center for the Performing Arts. It was just him an... | |
| the big one: how do you choose speakers? By what features, data? I'm still trying to figure out what all makes a speaker sound good to me. I can learn to like a lot of speakers, but I have found that when it comes to direct radiators I tend to like a 4" cone midrange, and 3/4" dome tweeter on a minimum baffle. ... | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? I can imagine having someone hooked up to measure their physical responses, like brainwaves, to see changes in their physiological and mental state with changes in sound quality. I'm not sure what we'd learn from that beyond just having the person... | |
| The weirdness of it all It would be interesting to see exactly what these different cables do to the sound. This could be done with a before and after measurement of the speaker. People say you can't measure these differences, they're something that only the human ear ca... | |
| Who turns center off when listening to music @soix It seems I haven’t communicated the concepts very well. But it doesn’t matter. You can read about the problems with 2 channel crosstalk if you’re interested. I don’t doubt you are correct - 2 speaker setups will live on as the primary crit... | |
| Who turns center off when listening to music @soix when you’re at a live concert how do you prevent the strings on the left from bleeding over into the woodwinds on the right? Do you bring your own personal divider with you to make it sound more “right” to you? To each his own I guess. ... | |
| Who turns center off when listening to music Who the hell owns and listens to a high-end, 2-channel system and doesn’t sit in the sweet spot? I think most everybody with a high end 2 speaker system has a chair in the sweet spot. Still, I work with a lot of people who appreciate their high... | |
| Who turns center off when listening to music @soix I totally understand why they don’t use a center channel. I’ve been to audio shows and listened to plenty of high-end 2 channel systems. I know what they can do. A center channel used the way I use it does something they can’t do. It can p... | |
| Who turns center off when listening to music @kota1 I'm with you and the chairman on the center channel. Not sure about that bowl of cigarettes. I guess he needed those to maintain his singing voice. | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? This thread got me thinking about how my whole family was pretty caught up in music. My mother and sister were both very involved in the stereo system - at least as much as me and my dad. They had their albums and they loved to play them loud, all... | |
| Who turns center off when listening to music I use the center channel all the time for everything. I listen almost exclusively to 2 channel recordings and up-mix everything to 3 channels with simple channel summing and subtracting - no complex processing. The 3 speakers are very close togeth... | |
| Denon PMA-A110 110 Anniversary Edition I haven't heard this unit yet but I'm interested. I have listened to the less expensive Denon 900HNE integrated amp in my home and I thought it had something special going for it in the mids and highs when powering some little Sony SSCS-5 bookshel... |