hilde45
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| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? Is transcendence or suspension of consciousness considered to be the highest form or goal of listening to music reproduction on a high end system? I’d suggest setting and propagating this as a goal is a disservice to the audiophile community, thi... | |
| Have some fun with bookshelf monitors!! Its nice to not hear "why do you need another set of speakers" - thanks for enabling me. Rock on. I find such comments more than irritating. Compare: "why do you need another to go to Italy again" and the stupidity inflates like a giant ball... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? That was a helpful clarification ("critique" vs. "analysis"). My biggest issue is with the claim listening purely for the music is the highest/best mode or goal of the audiophile. How can this be when the very essence of this hobby/obsession is ... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? @sns I like the distinction you make between critical thinking and analytical thinking. The idea that a critique can be "simple appreciation" is a tricky concept. To my understanding, "critique" involves at least two layers of experience, both th... | |
| Have some fun with bookshelf monitors!! I love Fritz’s Carbon 7 Mk. II SE. Search it out online and on youtube. It has a rear port, but most people assume that a front port solves the "placing it too close to the wall" problem. But it doesn’t, really, because the issue is that lower fr... | |
| Timeline Listing of Notable and Influential Times in Audio Manufacturing History That's great! Thank you! | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? It's just OCD man, pure and simple. Enjoy what you like and forget the rest. Right, and don't think critically about anything else -- diet, medical care, car purchases, choice of friends, or anything being done in society. That's all "OCD," to... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life For me, the greatest difference has come from learning to measure my room’s RT60, impulse response, and frequency curves using REW software and a UMIK-1 microphone. Understanding and then addressing these fundamental room acoustics has been transf... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? Your question is surprising, given how many times I’ve seen you on the forum. You express a common misconception about critical listening. It’s not about habitually listening in a way that is always dissecting every single instrument or constantly... | |
| Footers under new speakers @prof – I read it as "solidity." So much is dictated by folks these days, I just go with my best guess as to what they meant! | |
| What is your audio axiom? What I say to myself: "50% is the room, stupid." | |
| Footers under new speakers And yes, I got more of a disappearing act from the speakers, tighter and more holographic bass. But in the chase for ever more holographic tight bass, I found I lost with me is highly valuable: a sense of density, punch and salinity to the sou... | |
| Darko nailed it. 12 examples of wishful thinking in the hi-fi community Can anyone do a quick recap list of the 12 things for those of us who listen to music instead of watching YouTube? You must be low on time. It does not take that much time to do both, and they deliver different content. But I see what you did t... | |
| Encouraging people to consider a traditional 2 channel stereo system. @cleeds "Spotify HiFi." Ha-ha. So much for AI. Yes, Spotify does not yet offer lossless, but honestly, who cares? Get a decent setup with properly positioned speakers and reasonably decent equipment, and you’re off to experiencing good, invol... | |
| Robert Harley's Home Reference System Where is the audio sound? I don't get it. Isn't that like asking for a taste of the food prepared on a TV cooking show? |