Is Audio nirvana real?

You can get even simpler with tin cans and a string. Get with the program! 🎯

Actually I agree that smaller can be better. It all depends on the room and person. Headphones take the room out of the equation.

You aren’t driving any Magicos or Dynaudio speakers with the little 10 ouncer I Would assume. 😏

Forsooth.
Ok, thanks for the explanation.

What is Dark Matter for CDs?

Dark Matter is a spray on thin film the active ingredient of which is an absorber of the invisible portion of the CD laser background scattered light. Everyone is of course familiar with the green pen for CDs that absorbs the red portion of the scattered CD laser light. As it turns out most of the scattered laser light is not in the visible red portion of the spectrum, since the wavelength of the CD laser is 780 nm, into the near infrared portion. Thus green cannot absorb much of the scattered light since the invisible infrared portion is not affected by color, green or any other color.

mapman
13,663 posts
09-03-2016 2:37pm
"You can get even simpler with tin cans and a string. Get with the program! 🎯"

Wasn’t it Einstein who was fond of saying, make it as simple as possible but not simpler?

"Actually I agree that smaller can be better. It all depends on the room and person. Headphones take the room out of the equation."

Exactly, headphones take the room out of the equation. That’s a pretty big, complex and expensive unknown to take out of the equation. The portable headphone system also takes the transformer out of the equation. And house AC power and it’s attendant woes. It takes power cords out of the equation. It also takes interconnects and fuses out of the equation. All of the things that, you know, produce distortion and noise.

"You aren’t driving any Magicos or Dynaudio speakers with the little 10 ouncer I Would assume. 😏"

The headphones are part of the 10 ounces, grasshopper. The Sony Ultralights, specifically. They come in at just under 1 ounce. Rare earth magnets even. Oh, and no crossovers. I abhor crossovers.

Its budget sensitive; if you spent all you can afford, you're much more likely to hear the good things in your system rather than the flaws.  You can decide to be satisfied, and so to focus on the music.

I'm listening to Sgt. Peppers for the thousandth time and hearing things I never heard before. On a pretty modest system by agon standards. Nirvana for me.

Ah, the Personal Music Delivery System.  Given the 'right' choices of player and earbuds one can achieve Nirvana....
...on an extremely personal level, all the nuance, tonality, attack, complexity, all those elements we love and strive to recreate.

But....it's not created that way.  Music is not created between one's ears.
Or performed that way...well, not yet, anyway...

Music has a visceral quality that 10oz. of Anything ain't gonna serve up.
Nothing legal, anyway...

I will keep my collection of obscure metal and wooden boxes of wire and trace elements.  Mine makes a joyful noise I can feel, and that's important to me.  I suspect that's important to others