PS, Another reason, alluded to above, that the Linn demo and statement doesn't work is this:
Certainly, the differences between source components will be audible through most features. That is a given. However, the object is to integrate an entire system. Now, what you actually are sound waves produced by the speakers and bounced around your room. There is no way around this. In other words, there is no way to optimize your system -- and to really hear the source at its best -- without optimizing the speaker/room situation. This is why the TacT solution, for example, is so effective. TacT allows the user to equalize (something I have done about as well) and to adjust to time delays. This latter factor is crucial, in that it can come very, very close to getting around the problem of high frequency reflection AND allowing far better integration of bass, also in the time domain. There is simply no better way to do this. Personally, I don't find it all that necessary in my room, because my speakers are highly directional, I listen very close to what is considered "near field," which means high freq reflections are less intrusive, etc. However, for a lot of people, TacT, in combination with some very good speakers, can be a revolution. Robert Greene, the mathematican, acoustics expert, and twenty-odd-year TAS writer -- and who happens to choose Harbeth Monitor 40s as his reference speakers, despite being able to have pretty much anything made -- wrote a review of the TacT 2.2x recently. He was using M40s, Allisons as corner woofers, and EQ + RCS. He proclaimed it the soundest (excuse the pun) solution to great sound available. -- highdudgeon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ highdudgeon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2195 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19475 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
