bryoncunningham
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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool wrote:Basically, I do not believe that "neutrality" can possibly exist at all, whether we are talking about a single piece of equipment, the entire system as per your definition, or in live music...Learsfool - What do you think of Al's c... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon - I'm under impression that you discuss mostly frequency response of the system hence word EQ is repeated often. What about whole bunch of other things like macro and micro dynamics?Frequency response has been mentioned a few times on this t... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Cbw’s EQ challenge to my operationalization of ‘neutrality’ is a good one. Here is my understanding of it:If you were to give a unique EQ to every track in your music collection, then you would meet the conditions of my operationalization, namely:... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Al – I agree with everything in your last post. Also, I was happy to read that you are valuing the discussions on this thread. I am as well. As far as your remark that “It would seem to be verging on forming a good basis for a master's thesis, if ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool wrote:…it seems to me that if true "neutrality", "accuracy", and "transparency" could exist in a system, EQ would be completely unnecessary, and I was very surprised to see you mention it in this context.Learsfool – I did not mention EQ ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Almarg wrote: Since the source material will essentially always deviate to some degree and in some manner from being precisely accurate relative to the original event, then it can be expected that some deviation from accuracy in the system may in ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Almarg wrote:...if throughout this thread the word "accuracy" had been substituted for the word "neutrality," the amount of controversy and disagreement might have been significantly less.And I replied:...the concept of ‘neutrality’ fails to reduc... | |
| Best Hard Drive and Enclosure for Music Server I use 2 LaCie d2 Quadras, 500GB each, and I've had good results. They are fanless and very quiet. They are 8 feet from my listening position and I cannot hear them (I only have one drive on at a time, and that helps). No failures so far after 6 mo... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Almarg wrote:...if throughout this thread the word "accuracy" had been substituted for the word "neutrality," the amount of controversy and disagreement might have been significantly less.Al – I think you are probably correct that, if we were to s... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Tonywinsc - No, you didn't say anything to spoil the party. You have made several valuable observations, though some of your objections to neutrality have been discussed at length earlier in this thread. For example, you wrote:Music is coloration-... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Tonywinse wrote:If you really are looking for neutrality then get a Frequency Spectrum Analyzer and a pink noise generator. Set up the calibrated microphone, or even better get a binaural head and set it up in your listening position. Then you can... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool - I agree that this has been a thought-provoking discussion. I also agree that distortions are not necessarily bad. Reading papers by Nelson Pass, listening to his amplifiers, and owning two of them, I am convinced by his view that wheth... | |
| Pass or Spectral I am using Focals with a Pass XA.5 amp, and I can tell you that I love the combination. My system is considerably more modest than yours, but hopefully that helps a little. | |
| Best place in the system for a good PC? In my experience, a high end power cord made the biggest difference on my amp, then my source, then my preamp. | |
| is Cullen Mod beyond my systems and my ability? I think modifying your Sonos is a good idea. I have a Sonos modified by Cullen. He added a slave clock to my Sonos to work with an external reclocker. The Cullen mod you are talking about is designed to accomplish the same thing - reduce jitter. I... |