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| Amir and Blind Testing The interesting experiments are really hard to do. I can imagine a test involving giving some audiophiles long term daily access to a very highly regarded system in an excellent listening room. The trick would be to change things out and see if th... | |
| Limited soundstage between speakers I don’t feel it’s appropriate to think of room reflections as distortion. Ideally they add something nice to the listening experience. Our brain is very adept at discerning the original signal from a reflection most of the time, so distortion in e... | |
| Amir and Blind Testing I really like what Amir is doing on ASR. Measurements are super helpful in gaining a better understanding of what is happening when I like or don’t like reproduced sound. They help me get to where I want to be without stumbling in the dark so much... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality I’m surprised there’s not a lot of experimenting with changing the amplifier’s housing. I used to run a pair of cheap JVC amps with their case tops removed so they would cool better and I could unplug the fans. That made a definite audible improve... | |
| Will you hear the most beautiful music... @sgreg1 I think there would be fainting. | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Nice videos. I think I hear what I associate with tubes right at the start of one of those videos with the cymbal crash. I'm generally happier with the solid state sound but it'd be nice to be able to switch over to tubes with the flick of a switc... | |
| Will you hear the most beautiful music... That’s definitely something different! I don’t doubt it tastes wonderful. I read up that super low stress for the animal is important, as well as the genetics of the animal. The closest I’ve come to something like that was lamb I had at a Greek re... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns I don’t think the room is a magic box any more than any other component. It is a component, and can be the weakest link. From a pure measurement perspective it is often the weakest link, showing vast divergences from linearity at the listening pos... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns @noske You make good points about deciding what matters, and then having what matters change to you over time as your experience evolves. I think you have understood me and expanded on it. I’ve had exposure recently to a co-worker’s speakers he b... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns @mulveling I agree that if I’m not aware of the weakest link in my system I may have more room to make improvements that are more significant than I otherwise might think, especially if I have tried improving parts that were already relatively s... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns I think the law of accelerating returns applies to those who have developed an appreciation for the difficulty in making progressively smaller improvements, so they notice those small improvements and realize the achievement they signify. Their se... | |
| If you want the utmost clarity from your CDs If this produces palpable improvements for no physically known reason, it leads one to wonder what other methods or treatment might lead to even more palpable improvements! I don’t see any need for the treatment to be in the same room, or even on ... | |
| CDs And Green Markers. Please Don’t Laugh. I had a friend that worked at a Sony disc manufacturing plant here in Eugene years ago. They had a listening room with Dunlavy speakers and someone got paid to listen to CDs to make sure there weren't gross errors like mixed up track order, incomp... | |
| If you are interested..........? Do you have a picture of that setup? Optimizing low volume listening I think is an interesting topic. | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer @cd318 Yes, more similar in frequency response is primarily what the EQ will do. And if distortion is kept low and dispersion is similar the overall presentation will be very similar. Chances are if you like the sound of one you'll like the soun... |