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Opinion: Turning Off the Filtering

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to share with all of you some of my thoughts and one of the ways in which I most enjoy listening to music.

Have you ever spend a day in a noisy office, trying to talk to others? Or in a room with terrible acoustics, having a discussion? Have you felt yourself tired and exhausted after that? A lot of times our brain is working to filter out sounds in order to process words. To find the symbols which make up language in spite of the noise, reflections that we may find ourselves in.

This is what I most want to get rid of when I listen to music. It is why acoustics and speakers with dispersion control are so incredibly important to me. I want that utter ease, that ability to turn off all that processing and just listen. You may not have noticed this yet, so I'd like you to think about this, see if you can notice your brain shifting modes.

To me the best systems are the one's that are like being in the great outdoors. That feeling you get when your eyes can see for miles without interruption, but for my ears and brain instead of my eyes.

Is this you? Or did you not know this was you yet? :)


Best,


Erik
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erik_squires OP
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@stringreen

For those who can afford an ideal listening environment, I think the Magico listening room should be the gold standard.

But for anyone who has to make compromises, it may be overly optimistic.

In one case it has me scratching my head. The S1 Mk II is a small speaker. That to me says "family friendly," but it's really not tuned that way. It's a large room speaker.

But please, no one should follow my advice on anything related to business, as I have no track record at all. :)

Best,


E
erik_squires OP
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This by the way kind of brings us around to speakers which perform well in messy acoustic environments.

Line and planar sources, and in some ways, what the Tekton tweeter array is doing, are always interesting solutions to the listening room problem.

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E
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More line sources I can think of include Nola, and some McIntosh speakers.
riley804
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@erik_squires 

"  Riley, the point of this thread was to share what I like about high end. :) Not to ask for advice, sorry if there was confusion."

there is no confusion.......I gave my opinion on something and like I said before, a person can give their opinion and another member will take it the wrong way....

"  For those who can afford an ideal listening environment, I think the Magico listening room should be the gold standard. "

maybe to you that room sounds good, but maybe to another it wont.     


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shadorne
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Absolutely I can hear the room and surfaces around you when someone speaks or claps the hand.

I would be able to get around quite OK if I were blind as I can definitely sense things around me aurally. Ever see a blind person tapping their white stick and scurrying along just as fast as everyone else - they can hear obstacles just in the same way bats and dolphins use sound to echo locate objects (admittedly our human hearing systems are not nearly as refined as those animals for echo location tasks but the approach totally works)

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