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| "audiophiles listen to their equipment" I'm both an audiophile and an amateur musician. I've studied harmony and counterpoint and I do a little piano improvisation in classical styles. I only have a digital piano at home, so when I'm improvising, I'm focusing on the notes and chords and... | |
| "audiophiles listen to their equipment" @sudnh I agree. New music is always the most entertaining, and I don't need as high a quality. For example, streaming Tidal on my music server is not as high quality as playing from its SSD, but it's a way to hear much new music, so I really enjoy... | |
| "audiophiles listen to their equipment" @kerrybh I agree. But I think the measurement-loving types who hurl this insult at audiophiles are not just criticizing someone else’s taste, but making a wrong implication about some nearly objective facts about music listening and music-making. | |
| "audiophiles listen to their equipment" @audition__audio I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it, but I saw it on Audio Science Review, in a post in which dozens of "engineer-types" chimed in to mock audiophiles, so I think it was worth thinking about it long enough to give an a... | |
| "audiophiles listen to their equipment" @onhwy61 live music is different than reproduced music Not necessarily. I love live classical music, and I love reproduction that gets close to the characteristics of live. I know a recording engineer and musician who wrote a book on recordin... | |
| "audiophiles listen to their equipment" @ghdprentice Great description of the problems that occur when we listen too analytically and make decisions while in analytical mode. I did something similar... choose an impressive headphone amp years ago and eventually it was my only working am... | |
| "audiophiles listen to their equipment" @onhwy61 So many misconceptions. If you ever study orchestration you realize that music is a phenomenon of sound. I mean, you can realize that easily if you just pay attention, but I pick this as in incontrovertible example. The majority of peo... | |
| "audiophiles listen to their equipment" @roadcykler I'm not sure if this is what you are getting at, but I find that "critical" listening can go wrong sometimes, in the sense that the impressions it gives me are sometimes unconnected with listening for pleasure. An example is a system t... | |
| "audiophiles listen to their equipment" @paqua123 The issue I have with your analogy is that the luxury sedan doesn't have anything to do with the memories. But for me, the sound qualities of the system have a musical meaning. A good example is quality of the micro and macro dynamics. ... | |
| Opinions on McIntosh MHA200? @v-fi I didn't know that about older Audeze headphones - that there's variation. My LCD-2 is from 2011, so it could be affected by quality problems. Haven't heard that before on any other amp, though. I find the Sennheiser HD6xx to be mud. No hi... | |
| Opinions on McIntosh MHA200? @v-fi Just a couple hours ago I tried my LCD-2 headphones and yes, the sound is darker (mostly a good thing) but there is a treble resonance that's quite awful on certain high piano notes. Note sure if this a phenomenon of the LCD-2 impedance an... | |
| Opinions on McIntosh MHA200? @v-fi I replaced the tubes and suddenly there were dynamics. I'm burning in the new tubes now. I used JJ for the 12BH7 and Electro-Harmonix for the 12AT7. I think it's a good sounding amp in general, but my complaint is the tonal balance. Thro... | |
| is McIntosh known for good dynamics? @atmasphere You don't seem to have gotten my point. TLDR; distortion can't explain realism. Longer explanation: what I call good dynamics are also realistic dynamics when comparing the sound with live classical music, which has the greatest mic... | |
| Balancing "compelling sound" and euphonic sound @avanti1960 Interesting that you find an overly warm/veiled sound fatiguing. Interesting. I think I find it "boring." Totally with you when it comes to refinement. I find that my power conditioning and PCs improve the refinement a lot. I use a sy... | |
| is McIntosh known for good dynamics? @atmasphere While I understand what you're saying, that distortion will make the contrast between loud and soft greater, I don't think that is likely to result in realistic dynamics. In live music, microdynamics are particularly evident, and sudd... |