cbw723
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| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Bryon, I agree with most everything in your recent post. I would like to point out one detail that I tried (probably unsuccessfully) to make in my most recent post. You say:-reactive room is a listening space with significant ambient cues. Hence... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Bryon, I agree that experimentation is really the only way to answer some of these questions and likely the only way to find an ideal listening environment for a persons particular taste (aside from hiring someone who has the experience to design... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" ...I composed my response, above, before seeing Bryon's most recent post. But I think everything still stands. | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Bryon, regarding your recent post on ambience cues, directionality and listening rooms, I think you may be overlooking some aspects of what is going on with respect to the cues in the recording versus the cues from the listening room.Consider doin... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" I do not think of resolution this way, and I dont think most audiophiles do either. The term resolution is used by audiophiles to describe both a characteristic of an individual COMPONENT and a characteristic of a whole SYSTEM. Hence the term ... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Bryon says:But I wonder whether those colorations would contribute to the illusion that you are there. My suspicion is that the answer is often 'no.' That is to say, colorations that enhance ambient cues might nevertheless fail to contribute to ... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" The idea of creating listening room ambience by electronic means is appealing in theory. In practice, however, the limited experience I have had with professional reverb processors from high end manufacturers was not favorable.I don't disagree tha... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Bryon writes:1. If an audiophile listens predominantly to one type of music, he should design his listening room (when possible) to approximate the typical characteristics of the recording spaces for that type of music, so as to promote the illusi... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" Personally, I find the "you are there" sensation a bit disorienting. I know where I am when I'm listening, and it's not in a jazz club, concert hall, or stadium. So when I hear the cues that suggest those places, I find them distracting and they d... | |
| As system improves, do bad recordings sound worse? One theory: As your system improved, you simply became more aware of what those recordings actually sounded like, and with time "acclimated" to their sound.To disprove this theory you could define specifically what made the recordings sound bad, a... | |
| Other than music, why are you an audiophile? I have three reasons:1) I like to tinker with stuff. When I was a kid it was bikes and toys and broken vacuum cleaners. Then it was cars. Then computers and software. Now it's audio gear. There is something satisfying about piecing together a work... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool, I don't think I can be as accommodating as Bryon on your definition of "performance" to include playback. A performance is an event, unique in time and space, and as such, can never be repeated. The performance can be recorded and playe... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? As soon as anyone else listens to it, it does technically become a performance.Actually, technically, that's a playback of a performance unless the listening is in real time. In that case you have to make the distinction between recording the soun... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? >Like Bryon, I took the red one. But that blue one can be oh-so-seductive at times, especially with those recordings that are just a bit overproduced. | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Nice concluding post. It does, however, raise the question of the accessibility of the truth. For instance, how do I know what is the musical event and what is my system? So now I have to come up with a way of determining how much, and in what way... |