opaqueice;582664 Wrote: > Where's the cheese?? > > Seriously, I agree with Phil - next to the recording and possibly the > speakers, the room has the biggest effect on sound. I don't understand > your analogy (which objects are present) in the slightest. When I > listen to music on my squeezebox radio - hardly an audiophile grade > product - I hear all the same things I hear on my $10K main system. > It's just that everything sounds better on the main system.
If that's the case, I'm sorry to inform you that you've wasted ten grand. A progressively better audio system is indeed better because it progressively reveals more musical information. If you hear all the same things on your $10K system as you hear on your $1K system, you've just foolishly pissed away $9K! Any time I've upgraded my audio system I've ended up hearing ten times more details. That's why I kept upgrading. If it wasn't for that exhilarating experience, I would've never spent an extra penny on audio. Again, room treatment is meaningless the moment you put the headphones on. In my experience, a good, high quality system is very resilient to speaker positioning/room treatment. Yes, you can degrade the soundstage clarity with sloppy speaker placement, and yes, you can and up with a messier than necessary bass, but still, good system will continue delivering amazing illusion of music under various sub-optimal conditions. If you have a system that delivers acceptable performance only under the most optimal conditions, and if you can coerce it into sounding like crap by the virtue of making minor changes in your room, I'm afraid your system is pretty feeble to begin with. Go back to the drawing board, and figure out how to build a more resilient system, that's all I can tell you. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82520 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
