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| Audio gear, sonic quality when you listen in less (or non-) focused ways If I'm doing focused listening on the music, the sound quality is surprisingly unimportant - so long as nothing is horribly off I'll be OK because I'm focusing on the music itself and my mind is able to do a tremendous amount of "error correction"... | |
| Those singers you enjoy,....that don't really have a great voice? @edcyn To me, Roy Orbison had one of the greatest voices ever... I agree! | |
| Those singers you enjoy,....that don't really have a great voice? The voices that come to mind for me have already been repeatedly listed here. I was surprised to see Roy Orbison's voice listed. He wouldn't have made my list. Nevertheless, the thread has got me thinking perhaps there really is no such thing as a... | |
| Headphones vs speakers…. I love headphones for the same reasons already mentioned this thread but still prefer listening to speakers despite their faults. I think it’s important to have a sound wave actually traveling across your head, with the driver far enough away from... | |
| Finding (calculating?) speaker and amp impedance @erik_squires Another, and I've seen Focal do this, is that a difficult to drive speaker is seen as "discerning." No, I'm not going over this detail, either you believe me or you do not, but reviewers give far too much positive press to a spea... | |
| “Corner Club Cathedral Cocoon” I like what he says about music being robust. It really is for me. I enjoy the pursuit of setting up a good sound system but the truth is the musical enjoyment experience I’m ultimately looking for isn’t all that difficult, I suppose because my he... | |
| Finding (calculating?) speaker and amp impedance I was just thinking about this issue this morning. Those who design speakers that present very difficult loads to amplifiers must believe that there is no other way to get as good a sound, otherwise why do that? | |
| Vinyl - One Word - WOW!! Project was the brand that brought me back to vinyl for a while. I didn't stay, but I learned some respect for what a good LP playback rig can do. | |
| Are There Improvements that Can Be Easily and Quickly Made Without Buying More Stuff? I've heard various accounts of very noticeable improvements to sound quality by moving furnishings around, or moving a piece of furnishing in or out of the room. | |
| I have NOVA V's and I am not happy @ozzy62 I agree that getting different speakers is a great option, but if someone wanted to keep these speakers I don’t see any other option than EQ. And, if the off axis response is a smooth mirror of the on-axis response the results will so... | |
| The Best Room I've Ever Heard What a wonderful experience! I’ve heard some ultra high end systems in very good rooms and they were magical. Those impressions stick in my mind and give me a reference point to strive towards. You’d think that listening to live music would be the... | |
| I have NOVA V's and I am not happy Looking at the response they measured below I get the impression that could be a very bright speaker depending on the room you are in and how it is set up. I can’t imagine how a speaker with a more flat on-axis response could be so bright unless i... | |
| Is a highly discerning system enjoyable? I have built systems where I chased details and ended up in very weird places. I usually didn't realize how weird until I quit listening to it for a while and then fired it back up a few days later. "Discerning" can have a lot of meaning in terms ... | |
| Confession: I only like Norah Jones because so many others told me to I'm a Norah fan. Come Away With Me is (was) an audiophile staple. My girlfriend bought it first but then I heard it everywhere I went to listen to high end systems for a while. Last time was at a presentation of the Magnepan 30.7. Funny thing is t... | |
| The revolution has begun! I like the objective versus subjective chart. It gets complicated though since almost everything is biased, colored by personal feelings, equivalent to opinions, and non-factual & non-verifiable. I prefer to use the terms objective and subject... |