jimofmaine
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| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? There is a phenomenon often experienced at audio shows: an expensive system sucks. Often simply dismissed as just a bad set up or a bad room. There is another possibility. Maybe your ears are tuned differently. Maybe you are the problem. Or rather... | |
| Intriguing inquiry, are floor-stand speakers always better than active speakers? As was pointed out, it's a moot sonic argument. Both can have stellar measurements and superior sound. The Op I think however was getting at cost/benefit analysis. Interestingly, in the 100 year history of stereo, in 2022 we may be witnessing the ... | |
| How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?” Yes, there is a psychological side to listening, but chasing, "...the sound of a live performance on a recording" is a dubious or possibly dissatisfying goal. Aspiring to faithfully reproduce audio as mastered advances the listening experience and... | |
| I Don't Want to be an Audiophile, What am I... Many are anti-audiophile. For them, musical anything is background, distraction or emotional release and sometimes all three at once, but zero interest in how the sausage is made. | |
| Do we really know what "Live" music sounds like? Do we really know what was heard in the recording studio? Mastering studio? Not sure live performances/instruments are too helpful for end listeners building systems. While there are certainly benefits to hearing un-amplified live, there seems li... | |
| Where should the vocal image be? BEHIND Vocalists at proper scale (ie the visual auditory image is human scale or slightly larger) should be behind the plane. Exaggerated scale or vocals that are too forward indicate peaks in high-frequencies and can cause destruction of a 3d st... | |
| Room Treaments - Where To Begin... It helps to keep in mind that speaker placement is a huge part of overall room acoustics. As you place speakers, the mid and side channels of stereo (the sounds that make stereo, "stereo") in most cases radiates strongly at side angles and not str... | |
| What tracks offer the best left right separation? From the 1950's: any Phase 4. Total left, right back and forth. Music snobs almost universally hated the effects. A new medium, stereophonic sound, was being experimented with, for good and bad. Ever since Phase 4, the industry has steered away fr... | |
| Violin Moves All Over the Sound Stage My bet is your system is totally fine. (But some good advice from others.) Actually, hearing what you're hearing, means you system is actually playing VERY nicely. So, that stereo version (which is on Amazon Music) has the violin playing INVERTED,... | |
| High expectations when listening to an orchestra Yes, it can be done. The world needs to get the time-domain fixed. Up until now, fr and radpat. Soon it will truly be 4 dimensional. | |
| What audio aspect are you knowledgeable in? L+,R+True stereo for allscrew dolby | |
| Open Baffle Opinions - I Won't go back to Boxed Speakers Evr Again (maybe....) It's your speakers' position. Dipoles follow a simple rule for high frequency front/rear integration. If your are enjoying the low frequency coherency, you're not far away. LF is easier to find direct/rear. (But can still be optimized)You describe... | |
| Favorite obsolete formats..... KDKA Pittsburgh...AM talk radio. First AM station. Powered up to 50,000 watts each night. Listening as a kid in bed it was another world. Clear as bell on a good radio, but you could listen with a 5 cent transistor and a few wires. | |
| What is an audiophile? Are you an audiophile? The name needs a good re-branding. Non-audiophiles can spot an audiophile a mile away. When members swat away the label, you know there's an identity crisis happening. | |
| What makes speaker's sound big? This thread keeps going...So here's another thought, not specific to the speakers the OP mentions. (Again, the real answer is undistorted, real full range loudspeakers/subs. Size does not matter, but actually achieving the above sentence IS certai... |