bryoncunningham
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| 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... | |
| How to isolate bookshelf speakers on a bookshelf Because of space limitations, I have had my bookshelf speakers mounted on a piece of furniture for some time. I have tried both coupling and decoupling approaches. The best solution for me was a combination of Outriggers and Black Diamond Racing c... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool wrote:With water, although all sources are indeed contaminated, we can identify the definite impurities, and there is no debate on the subject, because science call tell us what truly pure water would be like...This is certainly not the ... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music E - Thanks for all the recommendations. I will start ordering from Amazon immediately! I am a digital only person (computer based, actually), so the vinyl versions are not an option for me, but I believe much of what you recommend is available on ... |