If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile?

I'm glad you have a really great room, mine is my living room so I do what I can but I don't have any complaints.

I don’t know my old AKG 701s sound pretty good. I could tell drums from pianos so they get the timbre.You can also EQ headphones.

Djones me too i was thinking at first that my headphones was good...

It is only with many dofferent headphones comparisons, and my speakers increased S.Q. that i begin to love them less, and at some point never use them...

Eq is like my modifications, only partial solutions...

I never realized directly using them at first what i was missing, it comes whith my room and gear control improvement...

Iike a i said elsewhere NOBODY can directly experience  the impact of the three noise floors of his system, which all together if uncontrolled affect greatly our S.Q' without even we know it at all....

Nobody ever listen directly to his electrical house noise floor and say: " i know where you are"....

 It takes some form of controls to realize the level of the  noise floor.... 

Nobody listen to his speakers say to them i know you vibrate and negatively impact he sound.... You put anything under them and you listen to a change. ,ore positive or more negative.... It is through these experiments that i learn about my specific noise floors presence...

I’m glad you have a really great room, mine is my living room so I do what I can but I don’t have any complaints.

The most important is learning to be happy....You have it.... then you are lucky.... All the rest is only hobby matter....

But it is true that owning a dedicated room tough is one of the more important asset in audio experience.... Not the gear most of the times like always everybody think....It is simply because acoustic controls is so powerful.... Using all his facets is more easy in a dedicated room....


My best to you and i apologize for my sometimes  rude answers.... Here we lost sometimes controls of ourself.... I am too passionnate.... You are more wise than i am....

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I’ve never understood what Mahgister was talking about, especially concerning timbre.

I’ll give my layman version, timbre is how I can tell a trumpet from a clarinet playing the same notes.

Right. We don’t even need a fancy audiophile definition for timbre the regular dictionary one is plenty good enough:

the character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity.

The character or quality we are talking about is what distinguishes a violin from a viola, alto sax from tenor, flute from piccolo. Even when both are playing the same note at the same volume. Because that note is never a pure tone, it is always a complex combination of harmonic overtones. The particular way the relative values of all those harmonics combine is timbre.

What acoustic embedding has to do with it I don’t know I don’t even know what acoustic embedding even is much less the other two though I have tried to figure out what he’s talking about.

Okay well the way I read mahgister is embedding is just another way of saying tune or control. Helmholtz resonators for example are one sort of acoustic control. Air pressure goes through an opening, in a bottle or straw, into a space, and back out again. In the process of going through the restriction it gives up energy. So a Helmholtz resonator is like a shock absorber. In reality it is just another sort of tube trap. It is also fundamentally the same or related to porting in a speaker cabinet. All the same sort of thing.

Your room, any room, has it’s own particular set of resonant frequencies. Why do you think it is so many people have the same bass problems in the same areas? Because the rooms are so similar in dimension. The helmholtz resonator can be tuned by its size and shape to damp these room resonance modes.

Okay so now take a look at what we have so far: timbre is the exact combination of harmonics that tell us which instrument is which. Room resonances affect different frequencies differently. Therefore, controlling them will help reproduce timbre accurately, making each instrument sound more like it should.

Replace "controlling" with "embedding" and you got it. Same for the other two embeddings, vibration and fields. Got it?