I use a Crayon Amplifer for color, tonality, timbre and texture.
How do you add color?
For those of you who are adherents of straight wire, ruler flat frequency response, accurate and neutral sound, artists’ true intentions, etc. ... please stop reading now. You’ve been warned. If you continue to read, you might get heartburn and since I’m a nice guy, I don’t want to do that to you.
Now, for those who are not opposed to adding a bit of color and flavor to tune/tweak the sound to their liking, what is your preferred method of madness? Speakers, amps, preamps, DACs, cables? I know many who like the combination of solid state amps with tube preamps. Lately, a lot of upmarket DACs are using tubes (Lampizator) or R2R to add a sort of tube-like flavoring. Let’s say you’re happy with your solid state amp but want to add a bit of tube magic to the chain, would you get there by way of tube preamps or tube DACs? Or both -- which might be too much of a good thing perhaps?
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To the canonical factors associated with music , Edgar Choueiri the genius in acoustic, added the spatial factors , which now we can use in recording DSP and -playback system with his BACCH filters...
Canonical musical factors : pitch, timbre, texture, volume/ dynamics, attack/duration/decay, melody, rhythm, and form.
Spatial factors : Reverb; Envelopment; Depth & Proximity; Spatial Extent & Resolution; Motion; Spatial Modulation; and Spatial Segregation.
This speak about the sound and the soundfield relation to be way more than just about what audiophiles speaking about gear called "colors"... Acoustics is the key and the road in audio not the gear which is only the vehicle and tool ....
Acoustics is the sleeping princess, your ears/brain is the kissing prince and the gear components are the 7 working dwarves... |
@lalitk -- well, I do hold you partly responsible for my affliction :) But in all seriousness, listening to your well-thought out, well-put together system was a great learning experience for me. I had listened to several systems at various dealers but yours really provided a guiding light in my quest for a better system. Some systems impress you, some pull you in with their musicality. Yours is certainly a great example of the latter. |
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