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| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? cd318I'm somewhat puzzled by the fact it seems no one (or no speaker manufacturer I'm currently aware of) is doing the live vs reproduced tests for their speakers. (With the exception of the occasional live musician brought in for some audio show... | |
| Neutral or Detailed. You can't have both erik,To be clear: My argument was a sort of "in principle" argument. My example was using real life sounds as the stand in for "neutrality." An acoustic guitar played life is, in this sense, experiencing a "perfectly neutral" sound, in the se... | |
| Neutral or Detailed. You can't have both I can certainly see the point you are making erik, but like others I don't quite agree with your ultimate thesis here.Certainly a goosed upper frequency region can make a speaker sound more detailed at lower playback levels.But the move to "theref... | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? @bdp24Understood.I've also used Musician’s Ear Plugs since the 90's. (Along with heavier duty earplugs if necessary). I'll still use them even in a pub/restaurant if it's really loud (and as I'm sort of a "foodie" who loves dining out, it's depr... | |
| What were your humble beginnings on the path to high end audio? My father was something of an audiophile, so I grew up listening to Kef 105.2 speakers and a Carver Cube/Holographic sound amp system.It sounded absolutely incredible.In the 90's I met my wife and when we moved in together she brought in a Harmon ... | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? @bdp24I'm curious: when you talk about your high frequency hearing loss, did you mean it was already gone 30 years ago, or that now your hearing tops out at 15k? If it tops out at 15k now, and if you are middle aged, that's quite good.I'm almost... | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? inna, you still seem to be stretching to come up with justifications for the fact you personally (apparently) just don’t like digital sources.You are just ignoring what I pointed out before; that analog involves gross changes of the form of carri... | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers It may seem like a simple, obvious suggestion but: don’t forget to bring a lot of music that you actually listen to. I think it’s tempting for us audiophiles when grabbing music to audition a system to gravitate to the really good recordings/audio... | |
| Boenicke Sounds expensive :) | |
| Boenicke @boenicke_audioI'm curious: Will Boenicke produce speakers in custom wood finishes?Thanks. | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson Fantastic report! Thank you very much duckworp. I love threads like this! (Which is why I did one too).What a spectacular list of speakers.I felt the Magico A3s that I auditioned were ultimately a bit fatiguing to listen to over time, so it's n... | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? inna wrote:Michael, languages are untranslatable. Wow that’s ridiculous. Just a flat out erroneous claim.If the language is digital you must not convert it into analog, you must take it as it is. This is for machines not humans, as we are now.Says... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? cd318,Interesting list.The main problem I see is the subjectivity involved. If we surveyed everyone here we'd see a huge variety of speakers being used, and I doubt many people would say "My speakers don't do instrumental timbre well." In other... | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? Ah, so now the reason for the weird OP comes out. It was just an excuse for Inna to make a personal (and ridiculous) rant against digital sources. Maybe try a less misleading thread the next time? | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? cleeds,Exactly. A thread asking “how good is your hearing?” is certainly a reasonable topic for a thread. But the OP makes it clear the thread actually wasn’t started with good intentions, but is rather an occasion for inna to insult the hearing... |