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| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? I don't hear vast differences between modern dacs, except for the ones that won't reliably lock on to my digital source. I'm very sensitive to the music randomly cutting out. | |
| Acoustically Treating a Bomb Shelter That's a lot of width, AND you've also got a full 20 feet of depth so it seems pretty ideal. I would try flipping it around just to see how it sounds. It's often recommended to put the speakers on the lower ceiling end. The sound tends to propagat... | |
| Tube sound is not about warmth. It's about correct presentation. Correct presentation is an interesting concept, and I can’t resist the temptation to make analogies to photography. If we’re going to print a photograph of a sunny beach scene, and we want it to look natural and realistic, are we just going to lin... | |
| Tube sound is not about warmth. It's about correct presentation. My experience with tube amps has not been better than solid state. I've liked some tube amps well enough, but I have yet to hear what it is that gets others so excited about them. In any case, I'll agree with the OP's assertion that proper present... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? A sound can seem realistic even if it's not accurately being reproduced. It might have been intended to sound like it's being heard in a different listening context than it's coming across, but it's coming across in a way that sounds very realisti... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @brev Curious that you would use the word impact. Maybe that’s not the best word. I just noticed that the effect of my father’s photos was indeed pleasing to the eye, but not the end-all in realism. The real scene seemed more colorful, but it... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? I consider myself fortunate to be able to appreciate and enjoy high quality audio and visual reproduction even though I don’t require it to enjoy content (although some content can be pretty rough on the ears if it isn't reproduced really well, or... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @mijostyn I think I’m becoming a believer in dipoles. My setup isn’t even close to ideal yet and it’s already making me really happy. I’ve moved the crossover all the way up to 3500 Hz and it sounds amazing even though the mid is pretty beamy up... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @brev My dad was a photographer. One year I was at the county fair looking at the photographs and saw one that looked like something my dad would do. Sure enough, it was his picture and it got some kind of award. The thing I mostly noticed was h... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @mijostyn What I really want is a certain sound and image quality. Just for philosophical fun I'm going to challenge that statement. Is that what you really want, or is it how you expect that certain sound and image quality will make you ... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @mahgister Gear obsession with no love or understanding for music nor for his acoustics and psycho-acoustic embeddings is a psychological disorder not a hobby ... I agree, and it's a type of psychological disorder that's not uncommon. The... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @mijostyn Expensive curse? I guess the expensive part depends on how well off you are, and how expensive your tastes are. The curse part depends on whether it ultimately makes you unhappy and unwell. If you're constantly moving heavy speakers ... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? Yes, certain music need a bite on edges, but it needs to be the right bite on the right edges. Definitely a lot of recordings were not meant to sound real so there’s no way to get it to happen. Still, they can be quite enjoyable. As for "good en... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? Smoothness is a word that I use for systems with a very characteristic sound. One of the smoothest sounds I’ve ever heard came from an old VW van that some guy had restored and put a big sound system in. I was just walking by and he had the doors ... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? I find that a speaker’s frequency response should measure flat on axis under anechoic conditions, and follow a downward tilted curve at the listening position something close to the Harman curve to sound best overall to me. That seems to be one me... |