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| "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... | |
| Balancing "compelling sound" and euphonic sound @hilde45 It sounds like you are noticing the same thing, that an amp can have that excitement, dynamics, etc. and yet have something in the sound that is unattractive. In my case, it was simply lowering enjoyment. I knew I was listening less to ... | |
| is McIntosh known for good dynamics? @atmasphere I've never encountered a discussion about dynamics that was "really" about distortion. Certainly my discussion here is not. So I have no idea what your point of posting on their thread was. What I am discussing, and you haven't respon... | |
| Balancing "compelling sound" and euphonic sound @hilde45 By overactive transients, I mean that transient attacks were a bit too powerful and slightly exaggerated. It's particularly noticeable in piano leading edges, which had a bit of a hard quality. This was more noticeable when I upgraded my ... | |
| is McIntosh known for good dynamics? @atmasphere Call it transparency or high-fidelity, but amps can be high fidelity in different ways. Some may be faithful to the timbre, others may also be faithful to the musical impact of the dynamics. The latter is what I call a dynamic amp (o... |