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Please Educate Me

If I can’t find the answer here, I won’t find it anywhere. 

Something I’ve wondered about for a long time: The whole world is digital. Some huge percentage of our lives consists of ones and zeros. 

And with the exception of hi-fi, I don’t know of a single instance in which all of this digitalia isn’t yes/no, black/white, it works or it doesn’t. No one says, “Man, Microsoft Word works great on this machine,” or “The reds in that copy of Grand Theft Auto are a tad bright.” The very nature of digital information precludes such questions. 

Not so when it comes to hi-fi. I’m extremely skeptical about much that goes on in high end audio but I’ve obviously heard the difference among digital sources. Just because something is on CD or 92/156 FLAC doesn’t mean that it’s going to sound the same on different players or streamers. 

Conceptually, logically, I don’t know why it doesn’t. I know about audiophile-type concerns like timing and flutter. But those don’t get to the underlying science of my question. 

I feel like I’m asking about ABCs but I was held back in kindergarten and the computerized world isn’t doing me any favors. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some work to do. I’ll be using Photoshop and I’ve got it dialed in just right. 
paul6001
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mahgister
12,964 posts
 
We can correct anything in a room, even the worst position...But for sure the speakers location distance MUST be precise... Othen than that, even with one of my speaker pressed in a corner for example my imaging is balanced.....


This is the good news and i know it by my listenings experiments, 2 years in my acoustic....



The bad news is that it will not be esthetic and cheap at the same time...

And each room is a case by case problem with only listening experiments to correct the course...Standard acoustic treatment solve all problem if you recreate the room for audio, but it is not cheap...I had useed many unorthodox controls and treatment at no cost almost with success..

The only thing i will try at last will be adjusting speakers and room with a mic and a program...This summer...

But my results are already astounding.... Not esthetic at all tough....I even cannot do justice to the foolishness of my room with only one photo.... But the S.Q. is the best i ever listen to ....I laugh the last then.... 😊


Thake my good news for a glimmer of hope....

My best to you freom the soul...
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danvignau
935 posts
 
millercarbon.  Get a life.  There are no reasons whatsoever for your comment, other than to be a prick. You offer no advice, and make accusations that are totally unfounded.  Go back to watching stoner cartoons.
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rvpiano
2,653 posts
 
To the OP,

Why do you allow your bell to be rung?
As a fellow New Yorker (albeit now a suburbanite,) I would think you’d be able to shrug this kind of dreck off.
Your question is a perfectly logical one to me.
Im surprised you keep coming back for more abuse.
paul6001 OP
98 posts
 
It’s because I’m a New Yorker that I appreciate a good brawl. 

If one is to spend 24/7 obsessing about a pair of speakers, one will reach a point where there’s not much to do except worry about “halfway wavelength cancellation frequency.” God only knows what will come next. 

Actually, when the speakers first arrived, I plunked them down on the stands where the old speakers stood. Despite all my micro adjustments and calculations, that’s still where they sound best. 

But a breakthrough lurks around the corner! I can feel it! Despite what KEF and everyone else says, I’ll find the secret and enter a new audio dimension. Then I’ll tell millercarbon what’s what
glupson
7,842 posts
 
paul6001,

”Conceptually, logically, I don’t know why it isn’t.”

Doesn’t that invite a response, doesn’t that ask somebody to inform me why it does?
No, it does not. It is a part of your musings, not a question by any means.

"Glupson, you got me. A triumph of form over content. As punishment I hereby ban myself from this forum."

No need for punishment. Some of us are just not good with either form, or content. You are not the only one who exhibited deficiencies in both here. I was not out to get you, I will happily return you to wherever you came from. It is just that I have low tolerance for bragrants who call others’ lives and plates whatever you called them.


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