firedog;611752 Wrote: > MCR- > > I'm simply a consumer, per your definitions, but I'm very interested in > Phil's tests. Why? I'd like to know if the small improvement I hear (or > think I hear) with Soundcheck's mods is possibly based on some actual > difference his tweaks make in the audio stream, or if it is entirely > imagined by me. What's wrong with that? AFIK, Phil is simply curious > and doing all of us a service. If you're not interested, fine. Why do > you feel compelled to snipe at something many of us are intrested in?
I'm just trying to delineate the plain Jane vanilla consumers from the geeks and geek-wannabes. Plain vanilla consumers, such as myself, only want to enjoy the music reproduction in the highest possible quality, given budgetary constraints. We don't care about the underlying technology. This is similar to automobiles. I'm not a car geek, I just use cars to get me from A to B. Others are more into cars as a technology, they like to learn technical details and what makes those cars tick. Then they engage in shop talk ad nausem. All fine and dandy, but let's not mix apples and oranges. Broadly speaking, there are two types of audiophiles: 1. Those listening to music reproduction 2. Those listening to the equipment I've seen a lot of audiophiles who primarily focus on listening to how does the gear sound. They keep swapping and modding various audio components and in the process keep listening very closely to the differences that these changes may cause in the way the equipment works. I'm not like that at all, and I suspect many other audiophiles on this forum are in the same boat. If we make a change, or an upgrade, we only evaluate it based on whether that change had improved the illusion of realistic presentation of the music. I think it's vitally important to make this distinction, in order to avoid unnecessary wheel spinning. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84742 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
