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What Does Holographic Sound Like?

And how do you get there? This is an interesting question. I have finally arrived at a very satisfying level of holography in my system. But it has taken a lot of time, effort and money to get there. I wish there had been a faster, easier and less expensive way to get there. But I never found one.

Can you get to a high level of holography in your system with one pair of interconnects and one pair of speaker wires? I don't believe so. I run cables in series. I never found one pair of interconnects and speaker wires that would achieve what has taken a heck of a lot of wires and "tweaks" to achieve. Let alone all the power cords that I run in series. Although I have found one special cable that has enabled the system to reach a very high level of holography -- HiDiamond -- I still need to run cables in series for the sound to be at its holographic best.

There are many levels of holography. Each level is built incrementally with the addition of one more wire and one more "tweak". I have a lot of wires and "tweaks" in my system. Each cable and each "tweak" has added another level to the holography. Just when I thought things could not get any better -- which has happened many times -- the addition of one more cable or "tweak" enabled the system to reach a higher level yet.

Will one "loom" do the job. I never found that special "loom". To achieve the best effects I have combined cables from Synergistic Research, Bybee, ASI Liveline, Cardas, Supra and HiDiamond -- with "tweaks" too numerous to mention but featuring Bybee products and a variety of other products, many of which have the word "quantum" in their description.

The effort to arrive at this point with my system has been two-fold. Firstly, finding the right cables and "tweaks" for the system. Secondly, finding where to place them in the system for the best effects -- a process of trial and error. A lot of cables and "tweaks" had to be sold off in the process. I put "tweaks" in quotation marks because the best "tweaks" in my system have had as profound effect as the components on the sound. The same for the best of the cables, as well. For me, cables and "tweaks" are components.

Have I finally "arrived"? I have just about arrived at the best level that I can expect within my budget -- there are a couple of items on the way. In any case, I assume there are many levels beyond what my system has arrived at. But since I'll never get there I am sitting back and enjoying the music in the blissful recognition that I don't know what I am missing.

I should mention that there are many elements that are as important as holography for the sound to be satisfying, IMO. They include detail, transparency, coherence, tonality, and dynamics, among others. My system has all of these elements in good measure.

Have you had success with holographic sound in your system? If so, how did you get there?
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My mind is open.... And yet to spill out.....
sabai OP
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By getting the discussion to swirl around his "esoteric" declarations, Geoffkait accomplishes his agenda -- to make himself the center of attention on these forums. He is a vendor with an agenda and this is good for business. This is the process whereby the thread is hijacked -- diverted by a vendor who will apparently use any tactic at is disposal to accomplish his own ends. He is not an audiophile who wants to express his ideas with other audiophiles. He is a vendor who wants to make commercial inroads by using these forums for his own ends.
sabai OP
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By expressing himself as he does, Geoffkait constantly draws attention to himself. He is, after all, esoteric -- according to him. Geoffkait's agenda is a self-centered one. You could never accuse Bobby Palkovic or Ted Denney of the same thing.
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Onhwy61,
That's the point. Who is more qualified to give a opinion about Bybee products that is meaningful -- that is based on actual experience? A guy who has 20 of them in his system or a vendor with an agenda who claims they are "controversial" -- and who gives no details about how many Bybee products he has in his own system? Who can be accused of setting off the BS meter? The guy who actually uses the products and has done so for many years or the vendor who talks off the top of his head with a sense of authority?

May I reiterate. If you go over the posts of respected vendors like Bobby Palkovic and Ted Denney and compare them with the posts of Geoffkait, you will easily see that the posts of Bobby Palkovic and Ted Denney are radically different in both tone and substance. We are talking about vendors who are in a whole other league -- people who talk straight about things they know about intimately -- vendors with deep understanding, vendors with substance and integrity.

It is the right of everyone here to talk about anything they like no matter how little they may actually know -- even if they are vendors. This is a free forum as Geoffkait proudly declares. So, he can say whatever he likes, he declares. But by expressing himself in this way he betrays the shallowness of his remarks in advance. You will never hear Bobby Palkovic or Ted Denney expressing themselves in such an inane manner on these forums.

If we are looking for integrity and substance we look to people who talk from experience. Opinions that are not backed by experience are a dime a dozen and should be viewed accordingly, especially when submitted by vendors who obviously appear here with a strong agenda.
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Geoffkait,
You can suggest whatever you like. That is your self-declared right here.

You stated, "I said Bybee's products were controversial, not ineffective." You can use whatever words you like. That is your self-declared right here. The word "controversial" can be used to describe just about anything under the sun. It simply means there is someone out there who may not agree. The word "controversial" is next to meaningless. It tells us nothing whatsoever about Bybee products. But that is your self-declared right here.

Chadeffect,
Geoff is getting what he deserves here -- nothing more and nothing less. If he wants to try to dominate this thread with all of his vendor-motivated nonsense he will be met with my responses until this thread is archived. He has the self-declared right to do whatever he likes here. I have the self-declared right to respond here. As long as my BS meter keeps detecting BS on this thread I will be posting here.
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