Is everyone aware that hearing is a fairly limited sense?
referencing vs plug & play
This last couple of months more of you have been getting ahold of me, it's cool don't stop. I enjoy working on your systems and especially enjoy some listening together. Something though is coming up often and it's making me wonder if somewhere along the way someone has dropped the ball when it comes to comparing components. In talking with a few of you I've learned that a lot of you are dropping components into your systems and comparing without dialing your system into the new set of conditions. Back in the early days of referencing, before plug & play, when we made changes to a system we treated the system as if everything was starting from scratch. We knew that if making a component swap took place that we were going to need to make the rest of the audio chain suitable to accommodate the new signal path. "make a change anywhere in the flow and you've made a new flow"
When the plug & play audio clubs started popping up my friends looked at me as if these folks were off their rockers. I just figured they were doing something interesting but weren't really serious about club night, more than a chance to mingle. It's kind of the same thought as a trade show. You don't really take them serious, but it gives a chance to meet and greet. Saying this, I'm starting to think possibly I was wrong and plug & play has become the norm over actually referencing systems. My mind tells me this is nuts, right, but I'm hearing more and more that HEA folks are actually simply dropping components in mid chain and that's it. So I have to ask.
You do realize plug & play is different from referencing a system change don't you?
please be respectful to each other, thanks
Michael Green
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Reading elizabeth’s posts above, and not going into theory and practice of loosening electrical connections, one has to conclude major differences between people who prefer "referencing" (as described by elizabeth) and those who prefer plug-and-play. Those who do not mind "referencing" have much more free time, or less of other interests. "Plug-and-play" crowd is less dedicated to the hobby of hunting what might have been. In other threads, people talk how "audiophilia" is an aging hobby. How wouldn’t it be? If it would require such measures as working on your outlets or changing something for each record/CD/file played, who would have time? Young people rarely have time to play with that, unless their job is to sell whatever is needed for "referencing". This is a "hobby" for retirees. Nothing wrong with that, but it surely is time-consuming when done any other way but plug-and-play. |
I wouldn't say our hearing is a fairly limited sense. "The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus--the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man. Blindness cuts you off from things. But deafness cuts you off from people. ---Helen Keller Also, our visual cortex uses our ears to predict what our eyes are about to see. See this:https://www.medicaldaily.com/our-ears-help-us-see-whats-coming-our-eyes-thanks-visual-cortex-284624 All the best, Nonoise |
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