bryoncunningham
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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool - Your last post contains many interesting and valid observations, IMO. But I disagree with the following argument:The answer I would make to your question in your last post is that I believe there is no such thing as a neutral audio sys... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Emorrisiv - I have at least three versions of the piece. The Kings College version in latin is my favorite. I didn't know all the history you mentioned. That's fascinating. Can you recommend other choral pieces with a similar ethereal quality? | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool wrote:I don't see how anyone could consider "correct pitch and timbre" part of "neutrality." I actually flinched when I read that - a musician's carefully crafted tone colors are NOT "neutral," and I personally would never want to listen... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Allegri's Miserere Mei, Deus. | |
| Music for "Tough Times" Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone. They can really express their suffering, and misery loves company. | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Dgarretson - Great post. Some thoughts...It would be complicated for non-audiophiles to judge neutrality or any other metric of high quality playback...The general population-- widely exposed to norms of Ipod and boom box listening-- has insurmoun... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool - I agree with your observation that it would difficult for a group of audiophiles to agree about which high resolution system was the most neutral. But I believe that (1) more agreement exists than has been generally acknowledged in thi... | |
| decent RF universal control system I use the Harmony 900 and I am very happy with it. | |
| Amp stands for Pass Labs I currently use a combination of a 2" maple platform and Black Diamond Racing Jumbo Pits under my Pass amp. Like Tvad, I didn't notice a difference. This was quite different from my experience putting isolation devices under my dac/preamp, which r... | |
| Can a high end SSP compete with a high end DAC? Elevick - Yes, that makes sense. Not something I call manage at the moment, I'm afraid. I was hoping that people might have some experience of the sort, "I had SSP such and such, changed to DAC so and so, and x and y improved." But your idea is a ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Al - You have stated exactly the intention of my original post. And yes, my name is Bryon, not Byron. It's a strange spelling of Bryan.Cbw723 wrote:"Couldn't a system have a high degree of both neutrality and resolution, but have fuzzy image focus... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? I started this thread with a proposal about how to identify neutrality in an audio system. The thread has become largely a debate about (1) the existence of neutrality; and (2) the value of neutrality. Several of the posters who deny the existence... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool wrote:"I can tell you that no two of us would agree on what this "neutrality" would sound like."I agree with this. But I do not conclude from it, as many of the posters seem to, that neutrality is either (1) unreal, or (2) unknowable.Lea... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Newbee wrote:"Using the term neutrality as a goal is, for me, no different that using the phrase absolute sound, i.e. live music (thanks to Harry Pearson). It is unachievable and serves no really purpose other than to put consumers on an endless (... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Jult52 wrote:"When you are asked whether you like a particular recording, do you ever say, with great approval, 'It was neutral!' Didn't think so."I agree with this, as I said in an earlier post. Again, neutrality is not a virtue of music or of re... |