bryoncunningham
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| To audyssey or not to audyssey, that is the ...? My experiences with Audyssey are similar to Dlcockrum's. I helped a friend calibrate his HT system using an Integra 9.8. When we A/B'd Audyssey vs. the unprocessed signal, we both preferred the unprocessed signal, and not by a little. In his Integ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? … evidence for too many audiophiles losing the forest for the trees is all over any audio site. I would estimate that at least one person a week posts in each one about how he drove himself crazy and is not enjoying the hobby or the music anymore,... | |
| First Post, Looking to buy Amp& Pre, $7,000 I have owned a Denon AVR, and I agree with the comments that you can expect a significant improvement from better amplification. Several posters have suggested Pass Labs, and I think that is a good choice. I have owned two Pass amps, and they fit ... | |
| amp or preamp most important I agree with the prevailing opinion so far that the amp is more important.Having said that, I have some experience with the components you mentioned, and if it were me, I would prefer the Anthem Statement D2 over the Anthem AVM50 for sound quality... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? When I began this thread, I advocated a strict kind of Objectivism regarding coloration and neutrality. That is to say, I argued that coloration and neutrality are characteristics that are INDPENDENT OF PERSONS. In my second post on 12/12, I relax... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? I guess my feeling is that too many audiophiles lose the forest for the trees by getting bogged down in trying to eliminate various types of colorations, etc.What is the evidence for this belief? Why is the effort to reduce colorations any more l... | |
| Doesn't DAC Do Heavy Lifting vs. Transport? Bigbucks - I assume your question about using a buffer is for me. The point I was trying to make is that the amount of jitter in a transport is an important consideration for achieving good sound. This was an attempt to address the OP's question, ... | |
| Doesn't DAC Do Heavy Lifting vs. Transport? Like you, I assumed that the DAC, not the transport, did the "heavy lifting." That is until I improved my transport with the addition of a reclocker, which lowered the jitter. The improvements were far from subtle. They included: greater perceived... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? …perception cannot be totally separated from preference, even if one is trying to be as objective as possible.Learsfool – I agree with this. My view is that, although perception and preference are always commingled to some extent, they can neverth... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Dgarretson wrote:…my view is that analytic & sterile err at the opposite extreme of unresolving warmth. Both kinds of extremes are colorations and as such, represent deviations from neutrality.I completely agree with this.And: My personal pref... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? if you enjoy a stereo system while listening to music, you won't enjoy it any more by analyzing it...any attempt to judge the attributes of a stereo system usually does not enhance the pleasure one gets from listening to music in general. while r... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Mrtennis and Kijanki - I have said many, many times on this thread that I believe that neutrality is only one virtue AMONG MANY. Perhaps I should begin several new threads, "How do you judge your system's resolution? ...musicality? ...beauty?" Eac... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Mrtennis wrote:regarding neutrality, without a reference it is impossible to judge neutrality, accuracy or transparency.when a recording is considered a reference for assessing the neutrality of a stereo system, the reference, either a live sound ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool - Sorry for the late reply. I've been traveling for the holiday.To share with you the reasons for the questions I asked you in my previous post:RE: (1) Do you believe that colorations can be either increased or decreased?This was a way o... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool wrote:I believe that colorations are ALWAYS present, and that an absence of them is not possible in music reproduction.Learsfool - I understand that you believe that colorations are always present in music reproduction. About this point ... |