I do not care at all what anyone else says something sounds like. You have to have more confidence in your own abilities including hearing. The problem for most people is that they do not have a solid reference. What should a certain recording sound like? This takes experience. Being too bright or harsh is a very common problem. You should never find yourself winsing at a recording. If you are not winsing you are probably OK.
Does someone’s opinion affect your opinion?
So I have a very nice turntable with a new MC cartridge which I liked and enjoyed…that is until someone said that the cartridge was very “piercing” and in his opinion almost unlistenable. Now I find I am not enjoying it as much. Two things to add, he is not anymore “golden ear” than me, and the brands are well known with good reviews.
But now, I don’t enjoy it as much. I know I shouldn’t let it bother me, but it does and it has impacted my enjoyment.
So, has this happen to you and what did you do?
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Generally people opinions dont affect too much my opinion... But i trust some expert opinion way over my limited experience... If i am on the fence for a change i must choose in who i will trust to operate a change if i am not able to listen to a future upgrade component ... But at the end it will be my EARS who will decide...But it is my ears/trained brain that make me able to discern the problem to begin with... Right now i am on the fence to change my satisfying Sansui Alpha 607i which is an amplifier designed for speakers to a lower noise floor headphone amplifier... The Sansui alpha is quieter already than my past S.S. amplification... Will it be an upgrade or a side grade ? Here i must confide in experts opinions and study them... I decide not to change the dac or the cable for my AKG K340 but the amplification... I am on the fence... Do i need this upgrade? No, not absolutely... But my actual headphone are so refined, i put them near the top of high end not near the bottom at all... Then because they are sensible to the electrical noise floor at a level none of my past components were , i am thinking about a super quiet amplifier and more refined than the S. S. Sansui alpha which is very hard to beat... It is why my trust in my ears now dont suffice... I need to read experts and trust some to make the change... Is my identification of the change at amplification is a good decision ? Why not the dac? The dac is a battery low cost dac NOT LINKED TO THE COMPUTER NOR TO THE ELECTRICAL GRID with a very low noise floor , with an internal big files storage, with a small needed equalizer to make the K340 nearer the harman curve for my ears... I cannot upgrade it without investing big money in a more erractic move than picking an improved amplification...Dac technology seems mature enough to me and my "perceived" problem is the electrical noise floor way more than the source dac quality here... i must adress the evident problem...Electrical noise floor...Most people are not conscious about it generally... The electrical noise floor when we own refined component is on par with acoustic as a qualitative factor over even the mechanical factor (vibrations control) especially with headphones instead of speakers ... WE all need experts opinions, even if only our ears will decided at the end... We must pick the right opinion.. For example, the new amplification which interested me is almost universally acclaimed, save by an audio frorum leader or guru... 😊 it is easy to discern why this guru cannot be objective about this piece of amplification for the sake of his site status... then i picked as trusty the designer of this piece of amplification , and all the numerous positive ectatic owners, not the audio guru and his bashing review ...😁
Before picking the right component we must pick the right expert...
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