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| No more "High End" for me...Back to Reality Audio @moofoo For me a big part of growing towards "natural sound" was going for higher and higher efficiency speakers. The common view of high efficiency speakers is that they give you "more SPL for your watts". However, there's something fundamental h... | |
| What is Tight Bass? @asvjerry Hi J, you have a lot of good things going on, and a sound path that you walk. Indeed, that is the beauty of audio, that there are so many choices and so many roads. I think the road you picked is one that can work extremely well, and you... | |
| No more "High End" for me...Back to Reality Audio In the distant past I never questioned whether High End equals High Fidelity. And then it has happened to me (in 2002) that I heard a guitar recording (made with my guitar) that my musician friend made (without processing or editing, straight reco... | |
| What is Tight Bass? @asvjerry Hi J, I hoped that it was clear that I protested against people being called dumb. Should be pretty obvious from my wording.. or so I thought, apparently wrongly. My humble apologies. Thank you for pointing it out! I am also upset, just... | |
| What is Tight Bass? @asvjerry Hello J, I am a little surprised by your reaction, esp as I do not know who you are. I did not call, nor presume anyone dumb. I'm sorry if I have offended you or anyone: in my two posts above I have expressed positives and negatives for ... | |
| What is Tight Bass? @ghdprentice I second your observations, I made the same. Solid state amplifiers give a boost to midbass, and have relatively lean deep bass, upper bass, and very thin midrange, and then a shrill top end. Talking about a good design, we can ... | |
| What is Tight Bass? Audiophiles' desire is that bass should have articulation, energy, speed delivery, and coherence. This desire is erroneously given the name of "tight bass", although for legitimate reason: the main barrier to good bass was looseness, lack of defi... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns Jeez, when a dealer refuses to let you listen to a system unless you can buy it... there's just nothing honest about it. I can understand that he will not go to lengths to put the system up for you as the dealers priority is the potential buyer. H... | |
| What is it I'm failing to grasp? Intriguing thread! Indeed, there are things we don't want, and others we do. For example, if one was to reproduces drums realistically in your living room, then the person would go partially deaf in record time. I listened to my pro drummer frien... | |
| To Buy or to DIY, here is my question Costs of commercial speakers: typically 10-30% of their price is the materials cost. (Cabinet + drivers + XO + internal cabling). That's the standard business model. When companies push it lower, they play with fire as they are will be unable to s... | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... I cannot comment on these specific DACs, but on the concept of diminishing returns: An upgrade might feel like a small step. However, once you are used to it, trying to go back to the previous "level" will feel like a big, almost unacceptable dro... | |
| How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?” I just enjoy the music and appreciate the strengths and feats of the system, whether they are realistic or doing something to make it more extravagant than real life... I just let the music happen, and I'm not trying to figure out whether it soun... | |
| I need help describing the sound of a SET to a friend in English. @jasonbourne52 Hi Jason, how do you like the Golden Tube SE40? I have one too... although it needs a complete rebuild - it's essentially transformers and chassis only. So far I have heard one account of this interesting SE amplifier: someone bro... | |
| The pope's rig? Not sure about his system, but I'm quite positive he must have GF Handel - Messiah in his collection.. probably multiple performances; | |
| Share MYSTICAL, HAUNTING songs Enya - Orinoco Flow (45RPM version, infinite goosebumps ; ) |