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| Sonic correlations with art in the listening space @toddalin @hilde45 Isn't it obvious that listening to "your system" on Youtube will sound like the system you listen to it through? (Granted, "for the most part"; the differences among the three systems on Youtube toddalin posted are apparent, bu... | |
| Sonic correlations with art in the listening space @hilde45 I agree with you (I think), and not with Jim Smith on this one. In fact, I've got a file of photos of "Sweet sweet spots," taken in friends' listening rooms or off the web, and many of them position the speakers on either side of a beauti... | |
| Sonic correlations with art in the listening space I'm often surprised at how indifferent to visual surroundings many audiophiles are. You've probably seen photos or videos of Michael Fremer's listening room. Horrible mess—not to mention that the acoustics can't possibly be any good. Synesthesia i... | |
| A Disc Review: The Cowboy Junkies - Whites Off Earth Now!! Also a Junkie junkie; FWIW, "Lay It Down" is my fave, especially the opening track "Something more besides you." Spare arrangement, but more refined than the earlier stuff that was recorded so primitively but compellingly. Still, the lesson here ... | |
| Why we (often) upgrade the wrong things (first) and ignore the important things @hilde45 @kerrybh : This "objective" vs. "subjective" debate is, to my mind, central to audiophilia. To rephrase: is the point of an audio system to reproduce what the original performance sounded like (that would be an "objective" standard, ho... | |
| The argument against upgrading @newton_john asked an important question which, IMHO, no one has really even addressed here. It's the perennial question facing the audiophile: is one in it for the music, or for the thrill of the reproduction? For the music, or for the kit? newto... | |
| I miss scarcity @hilde45 YES, I've been wanting to post something to this effect myself. Umberto Eco says somewhere (in _This is Not the End of the Book_, maybe?) that, notwithstanding the Borgesian Universal Library that the internet has already largely brough... | |
| Isoacoustics Gaia and speaker wobble @richardbrand is right. Ideally, one's speaker cabinet will be rigidly attached to the floor so that the forward and backward motion of the woofer cones will not cause an opposite motion in the cabinet. In theory, this could "muddy" transients. Sp... | |
| Anyone in this hobby lonely like me and wish they could “hang” with a fellow audiophile? I’m lucky to live in an area with a very active audio club, despite the small-town atmosphere and laid-back lifestyle (California Central Coast). I think there must be about 50 regular members of our club, several of them very well-heeled with wor... | |
| It Can't Be Explained Better I have a lot of respect for David Chesky, but: let's look closely at his argument, which the OP thinks "can't be explained better." Sure, everything resonates; "the world is a bell, and it wants to sing." But the singing world is not the music the... | |
| What would you do? For what it's worth, I picked up a Denon DP-37F a few years ago, put a new Ortofon 2M Blue cartridge in it, and have never looked back. It does have that "servotracer" tonearm, and it may be that a better cartridge would sound better in a fine but... | |
| God, I hate to ask this… @williamjohnston My deepest sympathies. Do you live near a major cancer center? There are many new treatments with remarkable results. A colleague whose stage 4 illness was diagnosed about a decade ago is still doing well (he was treated at Stanf... | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? audio-b-dog, Your question seems to me more articulate than the responses it got, so it's kind of hard to know what to say that you haven't already thought of. I don't know what you mean, however, when you write that "music not only travels on a... | |
| Soft-dome tweeter damage - NBD or permanently compromised? This "hobby" is driven by OCD (or perfectionism, if you prefer). People passionately debate the merits of cable break-in or power cords, Shakti stones and Schumann Resonance Generators. So OF COURSE a damaged tweeter dome should be replaced, and i... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? @bdp24 As you subsequently note, music reviews on Audiogon, and in Stereophile, TAS, etc., are mostly about sound quality. But you're right: I'd forgotten that there's a "music" discussion topic on this forum. Be that as it may, my comment was a... |