mapman
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| What The Fidelity?? Whatever you do make only one change at a time and give yourself and teh gear some time together before changing something else. BE sure to apply free easy tweaks like adjusting speaker placement, changing ICs to others you might own, etc. along t... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? C'on Geoff. Let er rip. We can take it! | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Tweaking to me is essentially fine tuning the sound to achieve a goal. With this definition, I have done a lot of tweaking to my system over the last 4-5 years as well to get to where I wanted to be. Pretty much everything save my turntable and to... | |
| One Small Step ... That Transforms Your System Sabai, Have you ever tried or considered a separate power and pre_amp as a possible tweak? From what i read about your joseph speakers, a heftier power amp + the ability to physically isolate preamp from power amp better might offer an advantage. ... | |
| Dyanudio Xeo 3 Wow Very interesting. Hadn't seen these yet, but like the idea. Have never heard a Dynaudio product sound less than excellent. | |
| Which speakers should I get. $500-$1000 Ohm micro walsh | |
| Warm, lush and smooth interconnect help I have less expensive mits. They are not overtly warm i find but perhaps more towards that than many and otherwise in line with your criteria. I doubt you have to spend moe than a few hundred max to get excellent results. | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Geoff.Each of us can obviously only assess relative to what each of us have actually heard. In my case and I'm sure in the case of many other experienced listeners I have heard a lot of live music and home and pro systems over the years. Many perf... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Csontos,I would tend to agree that the home audio territories we are discussing are very well understood and not all that complicated on grand scale of things.No doubt there are still some frontiers though. You can explore on your own or hire a gu... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Look, the bottom line is Sabai has his way which works for him. I have mine. We each have our own.If it works it works.Best practices that others might leverage is where it becomes interesting. Not everything that works can be a best practice. Bes... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Here's a useful principlethat relates to applications of technology that can also be applied to optimizing home audio effectively.home audio tweaks fall into the 20% category of the Pareto Principle I would say.Personally, as one who seeks perfect... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? "You stated, "I am not so certain". Certain about what? That a "strategy" you have no experience with may or may not work? This is like speculating about whether you will like vanilla when you have never even tasted it yet. More hot air."I like va... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? My perspective is that people rad these threads mostly to learn, not for pure entertainment value. TO me it is a disservice for anyone to be going hog wild recommending potentially expensive tweaks without putting those in proper perspective compa... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? One last breath of hot air I must add is that I am not anti tweak. However I endorse addressing fundamentals first, tweaks second. Some talk first about fundamentals, then tweaks, recognizing the relative importance correctly. Chadeffect is a good... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Sabai,Here's some more hot air....When you demonstrate a willingness to respect the opinions of others, I might continue the discussion, which I find an interesting one. OTherwise I will save my hot air for a more useful purpose. |