deep_333: It’s nice to have and experiment with different systems and combinations! It trains your ears to be more discerning to small changes, doesn’t it? It allows me to tell good from bad in just a few notes.
The Psychology of Constant (Equipment) Change
Anybody have an answer?
I have a decent selection of preamps, amps, integrateds and speakers to choose from and I find myself swapping out gear constantly. And it's not because anything sounds bad. Quite contrary, really.
After most swapping sessions, I'm generally really satisfied and quite enjoy the sound quality. But within a few weeks I'm swapping stuff out again.
What would be the diagnosis for my condition?
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Acoustics has no relation with eating in a restaurant... Sound parameters serve the music which always has been the goal. If the sound parameters are rightfully balanced we listen the music we dont change the parameters. I can say with a relative confidence that most audiophile are audiophile because they love first and last listening music.No ? Anyway when all acoustics parameters are settled rightfuly , ( room acoustic and synergetical gear system) we are so enthralled with music that we forgot the gear/room... ( the only exception is ignorance of basic audio knowledge and acoustics and OCD) In one word any sane and informed person will change music if he wanted more variety not the gear/room...😊
It is not an addiction it is more ignorance coupled with vulnerability to marketing publicity conditioning on someone who dont really know how to create synergy and the right acoustic conditions to begin with ...( it is way more fun to experiment with the gear we have if synergy is there than to buy more gear and more gear) Or it is someone with no budget limit and no basic knowledge who simply buy something new in audio many times a year and call that a journey in audio... I have a limit budget myself and i am interested once my system /room is settled optimally with basic knowledge by a MUSIC journey...No more an audio journey... Why ? Because once you have learned how to install and optimize a system/room , nevermind his price , you can do the same for any other system at any price . ( it takes me 6 months after my first well embedded system for the second one , the two being very different but the same basic knowledge is there nevermind the system/room )
This sentence makes no sense in acoustics why ? Because when a system /room is optimized electrically, mechanically, and acoustically NOT ONE MUSIC album sound the same... The acoustic experience of each recorded albums became completely different and perceptible ... In a bad system/room all sound the same even if each recording acoustics parameters are different... But the bad system/room cannot make perceptible the difference then instead of hearing the acoustic of the recorded album we hear the bad sound of our own system , with a great loss of information.
This sentence make no sense either because the goal of audio is not to stay frustrated with a System/room, the goal is to make the room/system perform the best it could do...For that we must learn basic knowledge not waiting frustrated and putting our attention on music... Doing that will not change the frustration and the bad acoustic and bad synergy of the gear experience... It is like saying to a dude on a dentist date without anesthesia, try to concentrate on music... it work to some extent only...😉Not much... i never been able to live with a bad sound without extreme frustration myself... Why do you think i read so much about synergy and acoustics because i had no other solution and no money to buy an easy apparent solution anyway to solve my problem ? i study and did experiments because it was fun and it improve my sound quality each week ... ellajeanelle is right:
But i must say that yes it is fum to buy many system if we can and try to have fun for sure... Why not? The only problem with that possibility of fun with various gear is that to enjoy really a system we must really takes a lot of time installing it optimally on his 3 working dimensions.. Once you have it for a first system you dont really generally have the time or the urge to create a not so well good other one... Save if as ellajeanelle you want a second and a third system in your kitchen and bedroom after the living room...😊 Then i understand and it is fun too ... This is not obsession nor insatisfaction or frustration or ignorance, it is just the need for 3 system with one top and two secondary one... it is not the rule most need only one TOP system or the best possible... And it does not change the rule : We must learn acoustics BEFORE playing with many upgrades, and we must learn basic mechanical resonance and EMI control and electric noise levels control etc ... ( and acoustics is not mere room acoustic) For sure three system well embedded and well optimized will sound different ... It is good if we can enjoy three... But we must begin with one and when we have one well embedded we do not think upgrades race so much... Music is the goal if we have it really good with immersiveness and holographic soundstage and natural timbre without too impeding acoustic limitations..
To answer the OP question : Learning Basic Knowledge is the solution not a race toward upgrades and new gear...If we want to listen music... Some want to play with the gear till their death..Not me, i want a new album each two or three days... Not one sound the same ... |
+1 on that, @jond . |
About the picture…it’s a power cord that came with my Running Springs Maxima. The outer sheath was loose and taped in place so I decided to pull it back and take a look. Now, this is PC that I was told costs over $1K new!!! Turns out it has about $900 worth of plumbers tape. Crazy. I think my room makes most speakers sound good. It’s small (13x14), with bad dimensions, but all the GIK panels I have help it work. |
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