hilde45
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| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? @mahgister The original recording is an acoustic perspective or take resulting from trade-off choices conveyed by the gear system to another acoustic perspective ,where they will be translated in our room for specific ears/head... @mteetan... | |
| Tube Preamps Should Have This Feature Your system is going to sound darn good 2 minutes after you turn it on. Try it. Play something favorite, involving I bet. Wait 30 minutes, play again. How much ’More’ involving? This is my experience. This problem is a "non-problem." For me. N... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? I’ve listened to a lot of concerts in a way where I paid audiophile-style attention. Concerts often have a lot of flaws -- imbalances, echo, etc. Live music doesn’t always set the standard. In those cases I don’t prefer "real." Even in concerts w... | |
| DAC DIRECT IN TO AMPLIFIER OR TO PREAMPLIFIER In case you need other views, this is a topic which comes up in this forum. https://forum.audiogon.com/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=DAC+into+amplifier | |
| Corner base trap- to the ceiling? You can play a test tone on your system, and take measurements with a db meter on your phone. Map your room and see where the bass is actually collecting. More scientific. | |
| The use of digital pitch correction software on vocal recordings All the people who love this music will say that there is both human expression and that it's valid enough. So, nothing has been negated for them. Only for you. Thinking about your phrase "totality of the human expression," we would have to say t... | |
| How do you add color? @arafiq It's an evolutionary process ... not just in terms of how your equipment choices evolve, but also how you gradually learn what type of sound appeals to you the most. Honestly, when I started I had no clue what I liked. So it's not alway... | |
| The use of digital pitch correction software on vocal recordings "thereby negating the human expression and negating the validity of the pretense." And all the people who love the recordings are...wrong? Quite the burden of proof you've set for yourself. Abandon ship. | |
| How do you add color? @arafiq Thanks for a nice thread. Enjoying it! For now, I’m thinking of trying a tube preamp with my SS amp. I really enjoy going back and forth from non-tube to tube preamp with my Pass XA-25. At first I enjoyed a preamp with an 12AT7 tube in... | |
| Room Too Dead Add bookcases and/or diffusion. Possibly of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXtsMz5345E&ab_channel=GIKAcoustics | |
| How do you add color? The problem is not the lack or the excess of colors... It is only a symptom or a manifestation of unbalanced components synergy or the presence of a too harsh and bright component or of a too warm one... The debate between colors and neutral is... | |
| How do you add color? I had a tube DAC but comments here helped me understand that tubes in the input chain might be removing too much information. So, now, they're out. Adjustments come, in descending order of impact, from (a) tube preamp input tube and (b) DAC. ... | |
| They know we will pay anything they can think of Money is an invention, anyway. It's all psychology. If you feel like high prices are demeaning, don't pay them. A gin and tonic cost me $15 the other day. Add up all the costs and the markup is exorbitant. Should I write a post complaining about... | |
| I Am Not an Audio Snob If you are an audiophile you are a snob. You believe and act as if you know more about music reproduction (and music) then the average mid-fi/pop music consumer. What if you do know more and you're not an a**hole? What if you do have a more ca... | |
| I Am Not an Audio Snob I must be missing the point, here. I have a Schiit EQ, too. It seems like a useful thing. Not sure how it bears on the use of the word "snob." As I understand it, that comes down to how I treat people and how I frame discussions about pluses and m... |