Acoustic experience dont come "magically" from a high price piece of gear... By the mere virtue of his design alone...
Then correlating electrical measures of design with describing words is arbitrary to a great extent...
But controlling time and timing, intensity frequencies levels, and direction and distance of apparent sound source in their ratio to listener envelopment factor is possible and can be described by words in our own experience...
For example in some opera good recording of Kurt Weill, the sound come almost behind me and near each one of my ears from two different singers with the orchestra imaging behind the speakers at the same time...
By the way a 2 stereo system is always composed of 4 speakers, two virtual one and two actual one, by virtue of the differential distance between each ear and your head diameter...
Why is this Kurt Weill recording sound like that ?
Because my room acoustic and psycho acoustic control made me able to sit on the stage with the singers turning their head and walking and singing with their voices perceived from different angles accordingly to their movement...All that with an intimacy experience that crash my 8 headphones,,,
For sure the reason first is the acoustic well encoded trade-off choices of the recording engineer, a genius, and the way my room is able to translate it acoustically and psych-acoustically for my 2 ears/brain interpretation....
For example i use a foldable screen like an acoustic lens to better control the ratio direct and reflected waves, and a hundred tuned Helmholtz resonators and also duffusers at critical locations to control intensity frequencies response of the speakers/room for my specific ears...
Is it perfect?
No...( for example more resolving system exist a very high price, but i dont want them at all cost even if i could afford them... my system is enough resolving and non fatiguing at all )
Is it better than anything i ever heard live?
Yes...( Even if my live system experience is limited, i am not a pro audio reviewer, my system beat all those i ever heard for me)
The only important factor to control save the embeddings one, are the S.Q. /price ratio factor...
But to control this ratio means you must be able to OPTIMIZE what you already own and know how to embed it rightfully...You must learn how to know the potential of what you already have...
Anything else is ignorance and sound obsession....
Upgrading your brain/ear acoustic experience matter much than upgrading the gear most of the times...
For sure i own a dedicated room... It is impossible to do that in a living room...
For sure my room is not esthetical, it is impossible to do an esthetical job with junk material and home made device and my uncrafty hands... My talent is undertanding books and teaching reading analysis not creating work of art... 😁😊
For sure the same thing can be made in an acoustically designed room with all resonators hidden and some esthetically designed...
But my price cost is peanuts, and acoustician designing such a tuned room will cost a fortune, easily near 100,000 bucks because of the time needed andnot only the materials needed ....
One thing is sure it is way more fun to tune a system in a consuming time ongoing set of listening experiments then the brief pleasure to plug a new gear in the wall at high price...😁😊
