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| Anyone listen to entire albums? I often listen to complete albums these days. I didn't when first started streaming but now I find myself frequently letting the whole album play, and then my streaming service starts guessing what I want to hear next. I notice it never plays a co... | |
| If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments? A great sounding room is a huge head start. Good sounding rooms are more than just good sounding for the stereo system. They’re pleasant rooms to be in, to talk in, to sing or play an instrument in. That’s the good news. A properly treated room ju... | |
| I see the issue with ABX blind testing I think it would help if you knew what the cable did to the signal, in technical terms. If you could measure that, it may be possible to derive a test signal that accentuates the difference. I know this won’t tell you if you actually like the soun... | |
| Are You A Disciplined Audiophile? Disciplined audiophile, that's an interesting idea. I won't wait if the sound is markedly unpleasant. Maybe a few days at most. If it's really nice it's easy to let it go for a few months - if my love affair with the new sound lasts that long. Or,... | |
| Qualities Of An End-game System When your system causes you to lose interest in changing anything with it ever again, it's end game. You'll never know. But others may know after you die, if they bother to think about it. | |
| This One has Me Stumped Seems like you've covered the compatibility issues and the distortion shouldn't be happening. I'm sure they'll figure it out. The reason I mentioned REW getting confused is that I've had highly audible distortion pop up that was apparently so s... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review It’d be nice to see the transfer functions of various cartridges, tonearms, etc. It could be measured, and could provide some clues about what kind of sound to expect. I’ve owned different turntables and cartridges and some of them sounded very di... | |
| This One has Me Stumped Did you ever get a measurement of the high frequency distortion coming out of the speakers? Was REW showing super low distortion, even though you could hear it coming through the speakers as the sweep was playing? I have found that REW can't alway... | |
| Overkill for small room One thing to think about is that smaller monitors with some subs may be more flexible in a smaller room. You can put the monitors where they image best and have the best overall tone. Put the subs where they interact best with the room. Since they... | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! If you are convinced you can hear a difference under normal listening conditions, that's one thing. If you can show there's a measurable difference that is well established to be enough to be detectable, that's a more interesting thing. If you can... | |
| Do you trust your ears more than measurements? A lot of good answers here. I’ve been working with measuring and listening for the last week, listening and noticing what I don’t like, and then trying to understand how to fix it. Measurements help get me in the ballpark. I know what a really bad... | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers I can partially agree with the people who aren’t into measurements. My agreement is that we don’t always know what a good measurement should look like. But here’s what I firmly believe. If an audible change has happened, that change will be measur... | |
| Did your system getting better the more money you spent or more experience you gained? @calvinj I think I’m at a point where I’m good. Changing one thing can screw up my entire chain and sound now! That’s a very good sign. I got there at my previous residence, at least in terms of setting up the equipment I tried. I’ll never kno... | |
| Did your system getting better the more money you spent or more experience you gained? Experience saves me money. Ultimately I can get better sound if I spend more but I have found there’s an upper limit to my ability to enjoy. Once the sound quality reaches a certain threshold I’m basically there, so no reason to push it further. M... | |
| Good measuring DACs vs. @erik_squires Do you buy a painting based on the purity of the oils used?? That's an interesting quote, and I'm not sure how to take it. My first thought is that it's like asking if you buy a piece of equipment just because it uses expensive ... |