Also be carefull when choosing speakers the popular missconception is that resolution = a lot of treble and to much upper midrange ( presence band ).
This is a trend i noticed the last decade some speaker brands newer models is actually worse. They may soud more " exciting" with good recordings in the shop. But will loose against a more boring and flat sounding speaker in the long term . To many products are designed for those 5 minutes in the shop, instead of long term user satisfaction. Then you have glare in spades, and a more correct source can "loose" against a more mellow vinyl player for example. That "awfull digital glare " is probably the records these days. I have not had source components with it since the early 90's old Yamaha CD players where not good . On the cynical side note the Source first concept was heavilly marketted by Linn who at the beginning only made a very expensive source component * surprise* not. And also acoustic treatment can be the little things, just damping that midrange flutter echo goes along way. If you have that " garage " type echo ( clap your hands hard and listen ) in your room, you haväe very slim changes of good sound. Speakers have different acoustic properties, I recently changed it took me 2 weeks to finalize the speaker position. I have a good grip on where in my room i have good positions for speakers, I use software or some simple tricks for that. But my new speaker had very different dispersion so I had to use a completely different toe in angle ? The thing is before I adjusted there position they sounded glary and hard, but that was evidently not a direct property of the speaker. That error could not be fixed by any means of source tweaking. It was evident with all god sources DVDA, CD and SqueezeBox. My cheap tricks for initial speaker placement I would . Use the long wall, divide the long wall in thirds place a speaker at 1/3 and 2/3 off that distance. Depending on how deep the room is Use fifths or third of the depth my current speaker is at 1/5 of the room depth out from the back wall. Do experiments on toe in and maybe small adjustments in other directions. My sub is 1/5 out of a corner from both deptha nd with perpective . Never ever place them close to side walls. This goes a long way of not exciting to many standing waves in the room. Note this goes for dynamic speakers ! dipol planars like maggies or electrostats have different " rules " usually very well outlined in thier manual . The piont i'm trying to make is that if the acoustics are not at least " ok" and the speaker placement is not good you can not tweak that rigth with the source. The " flaw " is so big the no source component can " fix" that Also we get "used to " how it sounds, speaker differences and differences in placement are very big, we can get " lost " when trying things . But in general speaker/ room can have frequnce deviations of 10-20 dB or more, where digital sources have practically none 0,1- 0,01 dB speaker have loads of distorsion too. It is amazing that we humans can hear differences in components truogh that haze at all ? Also I don't think you can make one rigth with 2 wrongs, for examle tame your shrill speakers with a tube power amp that makes the score 2*2=4 wrongs in my book :) Each component must stand on it's own as reasonable neutral to the source material, you want to hear the music not your hifi ? Rigth ? They must also work together but thats more about compatibility than the fabled synergy. Also note that speakers in room can deviate 10 - 20 dB in frequncy easilly so it have a massive impact on the " tone " of your system -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85922
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