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If you want lame advice DON'T do this!

Have you ever seen a member ask for advice about their system and don't understand why they need to make a change? Mistakes in this hobby are generally expensive. Does a list of components tell you how they sound together as a system? No Does a picture of a room tell you how the system sounds in the room? No. Think about the dollars that have been flushed away because the problem was the room and no matter what you stick in there or how much it cost it won't git er done. A flat in room frequency response is a starting point before changing anything. So, why don't more people post measurements when asking for advice? If you want lame advice DON'T post your system in your profile. If you want good advice post your system and a pic. If you want excellent advice include your in room FR measurements (which almost all modern receivers provide or REW can do for free). 

kota1
kota1 OP
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@terry9

"Every professional installer

Every competent professional installer

You are of course correct about bad installers, and I see the bad ones on youtube, ouch!

This video is about proper calibration:

https://youtu.be/CN0HGuE7s7Q

kota1 OP
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My streamer is a Paradigm Link which was only $199 on sale and has all the streaming features I need AND an RCA in port so I can also connect a TT or a CDP to it if I wanted. The reason it is so good is because it has ARC room correction. I use the toslink out to my Sony TAZH1ES dac/pre. The end result is a true holographic soundstage, crystal clear intonation of voices, every pluck of a cello, every breath of a singer, every shimmer of a cymbal or a triangle. It sounds so amazing NOT because of the streamer or the dac/pre. It sounds amazing because it is tuned to my room just right. No matter how much you spend on your front end, if the notes smear, if the noise doesn’t allow them to stand in their own space of the soundstage, you are missing the point. To do this strictly by ear is painstaking because you don’t know what you don’t know. Maybe it sounds great but you don’t know how much better it can get. When you see a measurement like the one below it basically confirms you have squeezed the living daylights out of your room to focus in a great performance for every track you play. I had a professional acoustician review this graph, he said even my FR before the ARC correction was outstanding due to the attention I gave to my room. The corrected graph is even better as you can see.

 

kota1 OP
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Imagine someone wants to buy new gear and they posted this graph, how much better advice could you provide if you saw this first:

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