How competitive are you with your system?

Listening to the systems of my audiophile friends is always interesting and I always try to get them to play records I’m familiar with, so I can compare their systems with mine. But our systems are never really comparable because our rooms are all so different. The listening room is always the biggest variable in audio!

@isellgoodgear  I have already shown you mine. I guess that you are too shy to show yours. All kidding aside, next time I’m in the UK I may send you a message to see if I can come over to listen to that “perfect” system.

@carlos269  I don’t think the recording per se is the issue with listening on video. The problem is more likely due the reproduction equipment and what one is listening to it on. 

i have a fairly well liked video on YouTube from seven years ago with my Guarneri speakers playing Miles Davis…but while a lot of folks think it sounds really good, it pales in comparison to what it sounds like in my room.

@vinylrestingplace There is a huge fallacy with that thinking. The variables between any two systems will NEVER be the same. All the systems that I have here at home are in different rooms and made up of different components. The reason that I’m able to compare them is because the ONLY thing that I care about is the resultant sound at the listening position and that is ALL that I care about and compare. NOTHING else matters to me, the ONLY think that matters and that should be compared is the resultant sound at the listening position. All of those other variables are inconsequential and fully baked into the resultant sound at the listening position. So don’t pay any attention to the room or any other variable, the ONLY thing that matters and that should be judged and compared is the resultant sound at the listening position. The variables will NEVER be all the same but that doesn’t matter as they are incorporated into the resultant sound and that sum of all variable sound is what one hears at the listening position and that resultant sound at the listening position is the only thing that should be judged and compared between systems.