Rodney_Gold;277010 Wrote: > Accurate is not always the best, my TACT room correction sounds > absolutely lousy when it does its thing and "flattens" the room/speaker > interface If you do not apply a preference curve it's unlistenable... If your speakers are about 1m away from room boundaries, flattening the listener-position frequency response isn't the "accurate" thing to do anyway. It might be if your speakers are near the walls though. Psychoacoustics is a more complex area than at first sight so I wouldn't draw general conclusions from this anecdote. Kris;277117 Wrote: > > I would have thought that the Bel Canto DAC would take away that thin, > anayltic, cold sound but it doesnt really change it at all. Infact its > almost identical. > I don't fault manufacturers for making transparent sources, any more than I blame them for making transparent cables or banana plugs.
Otherwise we end up with sources and amplifiers and speaker cables and banana plugs which are suitable only for a minority of applications. The same can't be said for speakers because there is not a clear definition of "accuracy" for them - they interact with rooms and rooms are all unique anyway so speakers and rooms are the optimum points to introduce taste. Darren -- darrenyeats SB3 / Inguz -> Krell KAV-300i (pre bypass) -> PMC AB-1 Dell laptop -> JVC UX-C30 mini system ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44360 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
