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| Low level listening @johnk I'm finding this to be true as well. I recently switched out some bookshelf speakers for big horn tweeters in my system. We're talking 800Hz and up. The narrower dispersion on the horns had a surprising effect of making the room sound mor... | |
| Is Imaging Worth Chasing? Tone, clarity, and room ambience come first for me. Imaging is in last place, but not by too far. I'll sacrifice a little of the others if necessary to get better imaging but there's a threshold for all these perceptual metrics before I start to b... | |
| OMG - Room Acoustics are Critical - WAF be dam-ed!. @donquichotte Someone else being in the room with you can change the sound, making demonstrating your system frustrating unless they turn out to be a good acoustic treatment. | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? It’s far more about your personal reaction to a high end DAC than trying to quantify what it does. I’ve been saying that audiophiles seem to have developed the ability to strain at gnats and swallow camels to an unusual degree. An issue that a non... | |
| Dylan's Time Out of Mind remix is Stunning @stuartk I totally agree. I think it's good they do these remixes. For one it allows them to re-monetize older material with a fresh presentation. It also gives end users more choices. For myself I can't think of any re-mixes that I whole hea... | |
| Dylan's Time Out of Mind remix is Stunning This thread got me interested so I listened to older and newer mixes last night. For me the remix is at best a step sideways. Pretty good, not bad, I can't complain. But actually.. | |
| What HiFi and Atmos I was excited about Atmos music at first but quickly cooled. I would like music mixes for 5 or 7 channels arrayed across the front, not surround sound. I don't care about height channels. They can throw those in if they want. The Atmos mixes I've ... | |
| How to Setup Your Room for Atmos and Immersive Audio I’m a believer in the potential benefits of more channels for musical listening. I’ve listened to some Apple Music in 7.1 - no height channels. I thought it was interesting to hear older recordings re-mastered in multi-channel. Some of them worked... | |
| Stereo image off-center I just listened to that track on Spotify and I'm hearing her dead center. | |
| A Skeptics Digital Upgrade Journey I know things can go wrong with digital signal chains that result in degraded sound. The latest weirdness I heard in my system was crazy tempo shifts with corresponding pitch shifts - like a very badly warped record. I thought such a thing was imp... | |
| Solving the "complex music problem"? @viridian I have not attended as many live events in relatively recent history as you have but I've also noticed on those occasions that if I closed my eyes it was difficult to tell exactly where sounds were coming from. At the last concert ... | |
| You know when you are dealing with a BS company.... The claimed sound improvement percentages should be multiplied or divided by the square root of negative one. That's probably somewhere in the fine print. | |
| Solving the "complex music problem"? I’ve heard some weird stuff on Atmos recordings - like a whole string section of instruments all globbed together coming from one distinct location. I’m guessing that was the track they had to work with - a mono strings track and they had to put i... | |
| Solving the "complex music problem"? A lot of good responses already. I agree with getting closer to the speakers or using more directional speakers and/or room treatments, and using active crossovers with steep slopes and more drivers, or adding more speakers and listening to multi-... | |
| Help. System sounds thin and bright or harsh @cymivka You figured it out yourself! That's some good sleuthing on your part. As someone who has worked in customer service and support for many years I have found that my customers often figure the problem out themselves while we're on the pho... |