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| Why do we demand so much from our systems? Seems to me, @emergingsoul that you may be after a moving target. How revealing do you want, and what’s your indicator(s) for revealing? If it’s purely listening-derived through time as you encounter new products, you’re in a head game against you... | |
| Who out there wants to, or has, validated an amazing cable find? pennfootball71 193 posts 01-23-2024 at 06:17am Synergistic literally melts the silver on the cable from super high voltages to smooth out the silver to have a perfect surface, Audioquest rubs the cable between 2 massive plates at high press... | |
| Mid-Fi, Hi-Fi or.....? balooo2 81 posts 01-23-2024 at 12:50am I am blessed to still have older folks in my family that to this day refer to a sound producing unit as a Hi Fi are they wrong? Fair point. From a semantics standpoint, no, elders using Hifi in... | |
| Mid-Fi, Hi-Fi or.....? Hifi vs. Midfi vs. Lofi… categorical distinctions that are so subjective as to be more confusing than not; mostly marketing terms in how they’re used. Hifi stands for high fidelity - i.e. gear that will play back music with as little alteration to... | |
| Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K I have two models of stereo speaker because of how they present themselves [differently] overall, but any genre of music sounds fine on both. Rock and roll is a cakewalk for both. I’d personally avoid speakers touted to be good for one kind of mus... | |
| What affects front to back depth in room/ system? tomic601 12,443 posts 01-17-2024 at 01:22pm u r chasing u tail….if your system can do it on a recording but not others…. This is correct (hence my previous comment about soundstage being largely recording- / master-dependent. I’d find o... | |
| Did your system getting better the more money you spent or more experience you gained? Good attitude. I’m there, have been for a few years now. Just wish that, like many people in this world, it had taken far less to tick that box for me. 😉 | |
| Did your system getting better the more money you spent or more experience you gained? Question’s a bit of a red herring since it’s not all encompassing of what can provide satisfaction (money vs. learning) in a playback setup. Both of those factors are inextricably linked to time, so they’re also not mutually exclusive, which some ... | |
| What affects front to back depth in room/ system? Soundstage can be at least as much dependent on how a recording / track was mastered (or remastered) as it might be on speaker model / placement x room. Hard characteristic to change, but as already mentioned, DSP can help. @veerossi if you find ... | |
| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! phusis 1,060 posts 01-12-2024 at 06:54am … The question could be raised whether the design goals for a pro application make sense for use in a home setting, but to me the most important takeaway is whether there are any obvious imp... | |
| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! deep_333 OP 446 posts 01-11-2024 at 10:08am @yoyoyaya @benanders I have used a fair amount of studio monitors at home over the years, nearfield and midfield (Neumann, Yamaha, Genelec, etc). They have never come anywhere close to what I r... | |
| Ripping CDs mlsstl 1,330 posts 01-10-2024 at 11:05pm While I don't have one, it looks like one of the simplest and easiest to use one-box solutions is a Brennan CD ripper. It includes a hard drive for file storage and looks up the CDs metadata for t... | |
| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! But @yoyoyaya is there any (lower priced) studio monitor that puts the PA energy into music playback? They seem tangential to the goals here. Seems OP is hoping to save money and get a more live experience but the trouble might come from studio-re... | |
| Did your system getting better the more money you spent or more experience you gained? p05129 446 posts 01-10-2024 at 07:40pm … Now I do think it’s foolish to buy a set of expensive speakers and put them in a room crammed next to a sofa, can’t bring them out from the wall, or put in a non-treated room, then you will never get... | |
| Ripping CDs Bit of a sign of the times when a OP asks about ripping CD’s and much of the talk turns to forget-it-just-stream. Many albums have been repressed multiple times. With that often comes remasters. By relying solely on a streaming service to the excl... |