mrtennis
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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? it seems there exists a dichotomy--enjoment of music and analysis for its own sake. one may satisify the need for achievment (analysis to achieve neutrality) while the other may attain pleasure for a liatener. | |
| Most Engaging Monitor? why not consider a pair of 16 ohm rogers ls 3/5a ? | |
| Magnepan Owners - Need Your Thoughts Please i own 1.6s . i am using a vtl deluxe 120. i probably don't listen as loud as you do. i average 70 to 80 db. i have no problem using the triode mode--about 45 watts.if you want to listen at spls approaching 90 db, consider that at times you will be... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? there was an iteresting piece in stereophile edited by markus sauer which attempted to show that there was no evidence that sound quality had a high correlation to satisfaction when listening to music.i agree, from an academic basisis, that analys... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? hi byron:my point is simple:if you enjoy a stereo system while listening to music, you won't enjoy it any more by analyzing it.unless one is a reviewer, the analytical mode is often an academic excercise with little reference to the satisfaction o... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? does anyone posit that in order to enjoy the fruits of listening to music it is necessary or ssufficient to have a method of assessing a systems' neutrality ?if , as i suspect it is not necessary or sufficient to be concenrened with the coloroatio... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? there is much subjectivity involved in making statements of a quantitative natture without a reference and relying exclusively upon memory.when comparing say, 2 stereo systems, i suspect that there will be significant disagreements among serious l... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? hi cbw:aural memory is very short. when judging the diffference between live and recordeded sound it is likely that one will be able to do so.however, when comparing two recordings as to which is closer to a live sound, there will be disagreements... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? in the english language , better is a subjective term, unless it is tied to a reference. since there is no known reference in audio as the sound of a recording is completely unknown and the memory of the sound of an instrument heard at a concert i... | |
| PS Audio Perfect Wave Transport/DAC experiences as an owner of cdplayers from around1986, itis myhumble opinion thattherearemany 16 and 18 bitplayerswhich aremore plesantsounding with a varietyof recordings than the ps audio combo or other attempts to by pass the traditionaltransport. as an exa... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? preference for a particular coloration(s))and the general tendendency for most"audiophiles" to disagree about anything negates many of the aforementioned arguments presented so far. | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? hi byron:some of my previous threads and posts concerned definition of words and not redundancy of analysis. | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? i have many things to say. first, many of the preceding comments seem rather academic and superfluous. one of the purposes of listening to music is to enjoy it. thus it may not be necessary to analyze it (a stereo system to the extent indicated)in... | |
| How to get the system sounding live? listening psoition determines perspective. sit near the instruments and.....you know what to expect. sit further away and the perspective is different. its still live. so, both laid back and forward represent the live sound. it is a matter of choice. | |
| PS Audio Perfect Wave Transport/DAC experiences although i haven't generated 200 houurs on the combination i think that the dac and transport illustrate the maxim, "there is no free lunch". while i find that well recorded discs profit from the increased resolution, mediocre recordings sound wor... |