Hi Glupson
Lol, you cracked me up with the swelling thing a little. I pictured all the guys here on the thread sitting outside in the rain listening and discussing the topic.
If you have time and a translation available to you, look at some of the audiophile forums from the far east. Metal and rubber corrosion is a major problem with audio products there.
An audio system really isn’t that far away from musical instruments as far as what affects what. Stereos go in and out of tune just like any other music producing item that carries an audio signal. I don’t look at the swelling of any instrument as a thing you want much of. As you mentioned early all of us can hear the cycles of listening change throughout the day. Some of this is us, some the system and some the continuum of time itself. How fast or slow something goes out of tune is relevant to the situation and the materials working, or not working, together as a whole.
The other thing sort of funny on this and other threads is how the posters dramatize things to prove points that really have nothing to do with listening to music at all. Like your bomb in the backyard thing or folks saying things with spins here to make their points, when all of this really comes down to common sense stuff. One that I kind of brought up earlier was this whole squeeze parts into a metal box and claim it will out perform something not in a box. These are basic designing flaws in the HEA paradigm that will sooner or latter catch up with the over build guys and kick them in the can big time, already been happening for about 15 years now even more. You know there are a lot of listeners out there who have felt ripped off by HEA after they experience simpler and more thought out designs. This is one of the reasons why you don’t see me getting upset on here. I’ve already done what they have yet to do, and as more people do and leave the HEA paradigm, then their friends in time follow suit and before you know it a whole gang of listeners leave the community of HEA brands.
I’ve got a system combo that will be going over to Malaysia soon that is a complete Tunable audio system. It includes everything. All you do is set it up and Tune it in. It cost less than one HEA component and blows the doors off of every big HEA system we have brought in in the last 4 years or beta tested at other places. And here’s the cool part, you can set this system up, put on a recording, if you like it great, if not, make a couple simple adjustments (similar to tuning a guitar) and your all set. This is the direction of the serious listener. Same thing with all these guys getting their room correction products. The hobby is actually getting sophisticated and before long in room listening will be bigger then it ever was. Check out the speakers I have coming out in 2019. They’re RoomTune Speakers. I have two markets I’m focused on. One is the combo setup I’m talking about and the other is the RoomTune system.
The RoomTune system is a lifestyle speaker system that uses the room as the speaker. It’s a speaker system designed to work with Digital Room Correction systems.
I know lol the self promotion police will be up to flame me shortly lol!
While they’re doing that listen to what I’m really saying. HEA has reached their crossroads, and it’s a good thing. We live in a different world than we did 25 years ago. Old school HEA is wonderful, especially 1995 and back. Then there’s the discrete HEA era 1995-2015. The discrete audio era lost ground, but during that time audio innovation overall advanced and advanced to the point where a room correction system now usually out performs your big buck systems. It doesn’t out perform the tuning purist but makes slaughter of these "One Fixed Sound" systems. Right now your seeing folks trying to correct their HEA systems with these processors, with fairly good results for the most part. For these systems though you still have some room and component problems, basically because many of the speaker designs out there are built to fight the room not work with it. That’s going to change and probably fairly soon and to a much bigger market.
Michael Green