How competitive are you with your system?


Do you try to rank your system with others’?    
Or are you content with enjoying your rig for what it is?

rvpiano

Not bad, but not great.  There is a hollowness that is not in the original.  Also it sounds more "thin" and "brittle."  (There is an upper bass missing.)

https://youtu.be/dQi_ao5F71s

I’m assuming this is the original.

https://youtu.be/Uwq7LIxYblo

@toddalin please post an audio recording/video of the same song playing on your system. Based on the result you may have to reconsider the part that mine in not great. Looking forward to listening to your system playing back this same track.

I don’t have it and I don’t stream to the audio system.

I am lucky that my computer monitor is a classic Advent system that does a really good job with nearfield monitoring. 

And the reason I can tell that it does a good job is that when I listen to recordings of my system, it sounds true to what I hear in the other room except that on the computer in a recording I can much better hear the effects of the room.  And of course you loose much of the soundstage and imaging.

@toddalin  Ok I see. Try to find it on CD. He was a great singer and all his albums have gems. By the way, your system sounds very good. Better than many high dollar systems.

Thanks,

Consider the room and electronics and recognize, what are those high dollar systems really going to sound like?  wink