immatthewj
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| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? . . . and if one does hear a sonic improvement with better electronics in a bad room--it is obviously due to "confirmation bias." But could confirmation bias ever play a part in how one perceives the effect of his or her high dollar investment in... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? @mahgister Why should I, or why should anyone, accept your word salad as the only definition of "music" and/or "musical" and reject Mirriam Webster? Please explain. | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? We do all have opinions. However, some state that their "opinions" are undisputeable facts. | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? Some Mirriam Webster definitions of "music" : vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony : the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to pro... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? What people choose to play on that equipment is a different matter- some of which some people might regard as musical while others might not. So the topic, IMO, is bit too broad in the context of this thread. Exactly and again, exactly. I gu... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? . . . Mirriam Webster lists having the pleasing harmonious qualities of music as one of their definitions for "musical.". Is Mirriam Webster wrong? Since you tossed about the word "musicality," this is how Mirriam Webster defines that: ... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? "musicality" is a concept defined with parameters under controls in experiments analysing statistical set of subjective perceptions classed in different categories.. After this set of experiments, we can using various concepts pertaining to acou... | |
| Dc voltage sent to my speakers @mulveling , forgive me for my limited ability to understand electrical theory, but based on what you typed, assuming the applicable cap failed inside a tubed preamp, the output transformers of the tubed amp (assuming a tube amp was behind the pr... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? The term "musical" cannot be defined as an opinion... So tell me which/who is more musical: Megadeath, AC/DC, Waylon Jennings, Pink Floyd, Cowboy Junkies, Maria Muldaur, Led Zeppelin, Suzanne Vega, Knickelback, Warren Zevon, Fritz Reiner and t... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? So you do know what they say about opinions? | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? My summary of this thread is that the term ’musical’ is not a good term to describe sound or equipment characteristics. It appears to have multiple different means to different people. Absolutely. Like quite a few of the adjectives and adver... | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? I only quoted you. Why are you throwing a hissy fit? But do you know what they say about opinions? | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? My opinion too .... Thanks .... Well, you know what they say about opinions. . . . | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? @immatthewj i 100% agree with you my system is 25% speakers. 75% electronics! My system is that way and I’m extremely happy @calvinj , and I am afraid my electroics $ to speaker $ ratio is even more skewed than that. That is partially because m... | |
| What to do with a large collection I’ve bought a lot of CDs that do and did absolutely nothing for me (I used to experiment back in the old days) but I needed to buy them in order to find the jewels that gave me hours upon hours (for years) of enjoyment. Iris Dement, Allison Krause... |