I knew I shouldn’t have written that as soon as I did it. 😬 Tip for the day - clean all Schumann frequency wall outlet connections with isopropyl alcohol. I use white pipe cleaners. You can see the grime easier with white ones. 😛 Especially recommended for those with many Schumann resonators, I won’t mention any names. Clean contacts and Graphene enhancer if you can get some reduce that old bugaboo, micro arcing.
I'm interested in hearing what "the best" systems sound like, where to go?
I have my system sounding pretty good now with a wide sound stage and good depth and imaging. I hear faint details that I have never heard in songs before. It took me three amps, two CD players, two sets of speakers and room treatments to get where I am. But the rabbit hole being what it is....I can't help but wonder....do I have the best it can be? I've been to brick and mortar, high end audio stores, but they don't really have listening rooms. Do any of you know of a place that has a good selection in stock that also has a good listening room to try them out? I would like to hear what is considered "the best". I would like a yard stick to use to determine if I'm getting everything out of the recordings that I can get. Even if it is thousands of dollars outside of my budget, I would like to know what I'm chasing.
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Years ago we went to the Stereophile show in Chicago and heard a lot of nice sounding systems, Back in 1999 we went to the CES show, we listened to 1 million plus setups down to single ended pure class A 2 watt amps running thru very efficient speakers that sounded amazing. All depends on what type of music usually listen to, how big your listening room and pocket book are. AT CES David Wilson had one of his big systems in a huge room with what looked like a couple of prototype sub-woofers that were the size of 30 cu.ft refrigerators, at times you couldn't hear them because they went well below 20hz. but could certainly feel the room shake. Iv'e had bigger systems in the past, currently I listen to a lot of Jazz and Blues so I'm loving a somewhat smaller set of speakers, if you like rock, classical or big band go with a larger speaker. |
Interesting, I never have the chance to listen to this kind of very costly audio system in my life....I am sure that it will sound musical with tweaks though.... :) Right. I sometimes worry the people who don't read carefully will see only bragging about being impossibly better than $1.3M worth of audiophile excellence, and entirely miss the main point which is to draw attention to the fact you cannot achieve excellence with any amount of money until and unless you bring everything- every tiny little thing- up to a high level of performance. The same system that underwhelms the way I heard it would I'm sure be stupefying beyond words with just a few thousand dollars of tweaks. This is Washington State, so for less than state sales tax they could go from blah to blown away. With the right tweaks. But they didn't. So they got blah. But with a whole lotta big. And it does go boom. Thus the phrase, big bada boom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8WLYzA0lCs |
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