kevn
Responses from kevn
| What does your Virtual System page say about you? @sfgak - everything is important in a system, really - I wouldn’t read much into the categories you stated. If any one puts things in an order, it’s more for organisational purposes than importance 😉 In friendship - kevin | |
| Merry go round @hilde45 - thanks for your reply - alls good, enjoy your journey! In friendship - kevin. | |
| Merry go round @hilde45 - thanks for your response, there was a lot in there to parse out, and i hope you won’t mind me thinking aloud. To start with, my apologies for not writing with greater clarity earlier - when I stated ‘one certainly cannot prefer the r... | |
| Merry go round @hilde - thank you for your kind response ; ) - just to clarify, I am certainly not saying there is one kind of reality, only that at any one venue that live music is being played, no one is going to point at the plucked string of a guitar and say... | |
| Merry go round @hilde45 - if I may, your analogy of food is not quite correct, because regardless of what you prefer there, you’re still eating the real thing - you’d need a simulacrum of the experience of taste and smell to make a more relevant analogy with so... | |
| The Disappearing Act @lalitk - there were increasing levels of disappearance over the course of building my system, but the biggest jumps happened with 1.open baffle speakers with their field coil drivers; 2.combination of replacing the fuse of the external power supp... | |
| BEST SPEAKER THAT COMES TO LIFE AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS @kjl1065 - I believe the only speaker type that would fit your bill will be a one driven my electromagnets - ie: field coil driver/s. Thing is, these don’t come cheap and to fit within your budget might take a little more than 15k brand new, altho... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? @mapman - I’ve found that anything that sounds unnaturally bright or fatiguing is not detail, it’s distortion. Systems that do that are not detailed, they just haven’t reduced degradation of the original signal sufficiently to pass muster. A tr... | |
| Do I Really Need a Dedicated Streamer? @dunkin - I’m not sure if your question as to why so many were suggesting you switch to tidal or qobuz when all you were asking about was how a better streamer might give you better sound quality, but if not, it is for precisely the same reason wh... | |
| 55” or 65” TV Screen Size and Your Speakers: Please Join Survey @ajant - one more add to the go bigger list. If you like the impact that a movie theatre screenscape gives you, the distance from the most popular seats in any movie house as a ratio of the diagonal dimension of the screen ranges between 1:1 to 1:... | |
| Which power cord should you buy first @salc - as calvin and others have said, power conditioner first. But then followed by server/streamer, then pre, then dac and last, amplifier - seemingly counterintuitive, I know, but it’s all about the source, as evidenced by the biggest changes ... | |
| Room with glass windows as a walls. @rodman99999 ‘infinitely tuneable’ - +1 : ) | |
| Open baffle speakers @mijostyn - not with nearfield listening and if that OB works off a competently designed and built field coil driver. You’d have to actually hear one to understand what’s possible. I only need to cross my subs over at 50db - any more affects the ... | |
| Open baffle speakers An open baffle speaker with good field coil drivers sorts out typical issues with low frequency control. In my listening, the only traditionally boxed speakers able to eliminate cabinet colouration have been the massive kharma enigma veyrons and t... | |
| Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it A couple of thoughts here, for whomever it may help - I find it best not to mix tracks from different services when building playlists on Roon. It gets quite wonky after a hundred or so tracks from say tidal and qobuz on the same playlist, but the... |