magiccarpetride;613824 Wrote: > > A lot of audiophiles seem to be willing to expend a lot of effort in > fighting this awful digital glare at the wrong end -- by playing with > the EQ, by placing speakers in different formations, and by treating > the listening room for minimizing various artifacts. My position is > that the problem must be attacked at the source, at its cause, not at > the symptom, or its effect. If the source signal is tainted by the > noisy power supply, noisy transport or noisy, jittery DAC, no amount of > careful speaker positioning and room treatment will be able to rectify > that mess. > > It's basically 'garbage in, garbage out'. Before we focus on speaker > placements and room treatment, let's first make sure that we have > solidified our signal at its source.
Speakers, amplification and the room - are working together. Standing waves, comb filtering, reflections, excessive reverberation and echo, bass boosts as big as 10db - all this is quite common in typical setup. And it is noise.. Good source is important, but these are not mutualy exclusive things Besides, many audiophiles already have $$$$$ source when they talk about acoustics -- michael123 Big 'thank you' to AndyG for fixing #15209, #15693, #16442, #16760 :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ michael123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23745 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85922 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
