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| Is the seated-centered solo listening to music a dated tech? 2 channel playback is the simplest form of stereo. Listening tests suggest that people generally prefer two or more speakers to a single speaker even when listening to mono recordings. Even for a person deaf in one ear there may be perceivable ben... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live Dispersion characteristics of real instruments tend to be very different than speakers, and that can be a giveaway. I read that Dunlavy tested his speakers in an anechoic chamber - on axis. He could get the speaker to fool someone in that situatio... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live The types of sounds playing through the stereo are usually a dead give away that it's the stereo. I don't have anybody in my house that's a great musician, or who can make a sound in my house sound like it was recorded in another acoustic space. T... | |
| Pleasurably better, not measurably better One thing I’ve found very pleasurable is stereo crosstalk cancellation. I love the sound it creates, but find the methods used to achieve it difficult to live with. It tends to be a real "head in a vice" kind of listening experience, often with a ... | |
| Pleasurably better, not measurably better @erik_squires If you ONLY treat first reflection points I can barely hear any benefit at all. It is only when the room overall has enough treatment to quiet it down that the 1st reflection points matter. That makes a lot of sense, and matche... | |
| Pleasurably better, not measurably better @erik_squires Thanks for that. I've noticed a lot of audiophiles who use extensive room treatments often leave the ceiling lightly treated or not treated at all. Some of them say they don't like it with too much absorption on the ceiling. Oth... | |
| Experienced only: What have you done with room correction? I've used bass correction in situations where it's just a joke without it. Sometimes we don't get to move the speakers where we want. In at least some of those cases judicious use of room correction can make the listening experience dramatically m... | |
| Pleasurably better, not measurably better Pleasurably better could go way beyond just the sound quality of a system. I personally love butter smooth FM tuner dials that have a good deal of mass and inertia and can coast a bit if you turn them quickly. A little static in the signal on a st... | |
| So I was changing a lightbulb last night… The system and you are interactive. | |
| Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it! @brauser I recently experimented with a SOTA power cable from Audio Magic replacing the stock cable and the improvement in picture quality was dramatic. What kind of image quality improvements did you see? Are they obvious enough that you cou... | |
| Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it! @teo_audio the differences will be notably more huge, if one does transient and complex transients stacked and their harmonics, as a fundamental test. I take it you must know of tests that have already shown this? | |
| Any Musicians Not on Spotify? I noticed I can’t listen to Marco Benevento Live at Tonic on Spotify, even though I see it listed in some searches and some of his other music is available. | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? I can't afford a $40K amplifier and I'm not worried about whatever I might be missing there. But I don't doubt I might be missing something very good, and it may not be just about the sound quality taken in isolation. I have a fairly expensive wa... | |
| Sad songs- We love them- We need them @immatthewj "Everybody Hurts" REM This one and "Sweetness Follows." Really struck home when my father died. | |
| Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it! @jerryg123 Ah, I'm slow at picking up nuance sometimes. Now you've got me thinking about "the measurement guys." I'm envisioning people who own equipment just to measure it - they never listen to it at all! There's nothing wrong with that I supp... |