toddalin
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| When I listen to my system....... Claiming a recording IS real music is analogous to saying a photograph of my dog IS my dog (without the fur :-). Really not the same thing at all. No not at all. It comes down to your definition of music and I choose to agree with Wikipedia’s. I ... | |
| When I listen to my system....... Agreed "music" does not have to be live to be music. But even a live performance performed though any sort of public address system is subject to many of the same "flaws" as a recorded track. What of the music that is performed simultaneously wi... | |
| Is it me? Will I ever be satisfied? Is it me? Will I ever be satisfied? Maybe not. But even if you do get things sorted out, maybe not. Some people are just of the mentality that it could sound just that much better if I could just... But the reality is that no matter how good... | |
| When I listen to my system....... As I listen to SRV, just as an example, there are three musicians working together to create a "performance". How is it that anyone can put tone, sound staging, or anything else with the "sound" before the performance. Because the engineer worked... | |
| speakers that are a little laid back in the mids The new SVS Ultra Evolution speakers are VERY laid back. When I heard them, they were way too dead for my taste, but maybe to others... https://www.stereophile.com/index.html | |
| Recommend a desktop nearfield speaker for me I have a pair of Chartwell LS3/5As that were my neighbors. He used them just as you describe, on his desk at ~2 feet as computer monitors powered by a (IIRC) mid-line Pioneer receiver. When he passed away, his kids cleaned out the house and gave ... | |
| Wanna take it to the next level? Buy MORE speakers! Even some people that should know better, are often taken in by great looking enclosures and marketing. Just look at all the great press those crappy new SVS speakers are getting. I heard them at the Home Entertainment Show and they really sound... | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. "All I can do is report what I’ve observed to the best of my ability." Then I would say make a YouTube video both ways so one can instantaneously evaluate the difference in real time. Then you can actually demonstrate this phenomenon for all t... | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. Again, get them to the same spot/height/tilt/incline/distance/etc. with and without the pavers to see if that's really what's doing it. I'm thinking that few here actually believe that the material differences of the ceramic clay as opposed to... | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. "I endured sibilance for a long time. I'm far more familiar with it than I'd prefer to be. It hasn't returned since I removed the pavers. Why would I want to bring the pavers back?" Too see if that was really the cause or was it some nebulous thi... | |
| Do You Have to Play a Component to Warm it Up? My system improves for the first 20-30 minutes. Congestion is diminished and soundstage and imaging improve, | |
| Is "detailed" audiophile code for too much treble? "But since human hearing is not flat, a flat response could yield all kinds of lows and highs a particular listener does not want." So if you roll off the highs and your ear is rolling them off further, you take too much away. Natural sound is no... | |
| Is "detailed" audiophile code for too much treble? If you think about it, a flat frequency response SHOULD provide the most detail because if you have a dip in the response you loose detail through that area, and if you have a peak, you mask detail in other areas. If you have a flat response to "... | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. Anything helps on glass but a heavier weave seems like it would be better. Black matters not for sound but for video reflection from the projector screen. This is our everyday "TV" set. | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. "Well, I’ve tried covering the coffee table’s glass top, slate hearth and glass-fronted fireplace insert with blankets and foam and heard no difference. I hate tipped up or otherwise fatiguing sound so if doing these things made a perceptible diff... |