"but I am more interested in emotional sound quality rather than slam, the ultimate dynamics or convenience." (Red2)
This statement strikes me curiosly, as I find that the "emotion" in sound quality that's most often lacking in typical audiophile systems, IS INDEED THE LACK OF DYNAMICS!!
There's a trememndously huge variety of high end speaker offerings out there, that can do tonal transparancy, resolution/detail, soundstaging, etc, to near perfection!! With the right combo of gear, you can make Wilson's, Theil's, Verity Audio's, Magnapan's, Apogee's, Talon's, JM Utopia's, etc,and on, and on, all sound crystal clear and very pretty sounding!-with tons of resolve and detail.
The problem with most of these speakers is in the DYNAMICS DEPARTMENT! And, infact, compared to better active or high efficiency designs, the lack of dynamic transparancy in traditional audiophile speakers, is what keeps them from portraying REALISM!
Basically, your heavier dynamic rock, rap, techno, pop, new world, big scale classical, Dolby Dig, DTS, etc, etc, mixed stuff, falls rather flat, especially without some sort of bass managment dubties!
So, when someone talks about emotion from a speaker, the speakers in mention better be able to jump up and boogie, snap, crackle and pop, and slap you in the chest with hard hitting dynamic effortlessness, or I'm going to be just yawning!
This statement strikes me curiosly, as I find that the "emotion" in sound quality that's most often lacking in typical audiophile systems, IS INDEED THE LACK OF DYNAMICS!!
There's a trememndously huge variety of high end speaker offerings out there, that can do tonal transparancy, resolution/detail, soundstaging, etc, to near perfection!! With the right combo of gear, you can make Wilson's, Theil's, Verity Audio's, Magnapan's, Apogee's, Talon's, JM Utopia's, etc,and on, and on, all sound crystal clear and very pretty sounding!-with tons of resolve and detail.
The problem with most of these speakers is in the DYNAMICS DEPARTMENT! And, infact, compared to better active or high efficiency designs, the lack of dynamic transparancy in traditional audiophile speakers, is what keeps them from portraying REALISM!
Basically, your heavier dynamic rock, rap, techno, pop, new world, big scale classical, Dolby Dig, DTS, etc, etc, mixed stuff, falls rather flat, especially without some sort of bass managment dubties!
So, when someone talks about emotion from a speaker, the speakers in mention better be able to jump up and boogie, snap, crackle and pop, and slap you in the chest with hard hitting dynamic effortlessness, or I'm going to be just yawning!