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Best way to test your system?

One of the best ways I've found to test my system is to hook up my dvd player to my DAC and watch a movie for a short time. Since so much music is hyper-produced in the studio, I think many people don't really know what an instrument actually sounds like in native sound. Unless of course they're around a musical instrument in the home or go to acoustic concerts. Yet, nearly everyone is interacting with people, hearing the everyday noises that occur in movies on a daily basis. The reference is fresh.

I find that to hear regular conversations/dialog over some of the systems I've owned really told me how accurate and realistic my system was in reproducing sounds. I've heard people say that music sounds great on their system but film sounds poor. They should both sound good if the system's good. Yes, movies use compression on the soundtrack but still I've had the same exact experience - music sounded great but normal dialog didn't.
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kbarkamian
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My way of evaluating a system is listening to a sampling of my favorite music. I've never heard a system that truly made me believe the musicians are in the room. Living 30 mnutes from Manhattan, I've heard some systems that cost more than the average home. Some were outstanding, others were not very good to put it nicely.

IMO music loses something everytime it passes through another component - from that first recording microphone to the speakers in your room.

The way I look at it, find a few systems that let as much of the emotion through as possible, then pick your favorite flavor. Pick the one with the least offensive trade offs.

A lot of people won't see eye to eye with me on that one. There's really no right or wrong here, only opinions.

JR

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