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Quiz: My hi fi sounds great when I sitin the corner, but in the listening position there is no bass. Should I
1) Tube roll
2) Go on the 'Gon and buy some expensive cables
3) Try to understand my room acoustics through modeling, measurement, treatment and listening?
Quiz: My hi fi sounds great when I sitin the corner, but in the listening position there is no bass. Should I
1) Tube roll
2) Go on the 'Gon and buy some expensive cables
3) Try to understand my room acoustics through modeling, measurement, treatment and listening?
I don' tfear measurements. I fear those who would take those measuremens and beat us over the head and force us to lisen to equipment that does not sound musical. I think Harry Pearson siad it best when he said Wilma Cozurt told him trust your ears. Don't lisen to them.Trust your ears. When they bring you the measurements and tell you this is the way it'' suppose to sound. Trust you ears. I've said it before and i guess it bears repeating. If an unkown entity is your reference, you have no reference. If you concede you don't know what the source sounds like, it is unknown.
I throw it back at you. It is not us who fear meausrements. We have many on our side who can measure their ass off. It is the measurement crowd who fears listening. They do everything they can to discredit listening as a test from ABX to outrightt name calling. You cannot have a cooking test without tasting because tasting is what it's all about. In the final analysis, it always comes down to listening. As some one else on this forum has already pointed out we can never know what the the listener actually heard. We have to take his word for it.
I throw it back at you. It is not us who fear meausrements. We have many on our side who can measure their ass off. It is the measurement crowd who fears listening.
I don' tfear measurements. I fear those who would take those measuremens and beat us over the head and force us to lisen to equipment that does not sound musical. I think Harry Pearson siad it best when he said Wilma Cozurt told him trust your ears. Don't lisen to them.Trust your ears. When they bring you the measurements and tell you this is the way it'' suppose to sound. Trust you ears. I've said it before and i guess it bears repeating. If an unkown entity is your reference, you have no reference. If you concede you don't know what the source sounds like, it is unknown.
I throw it back at you. It is not us who fear meausrements. We have many on our side who can measure their ass off. It is the measurement crowd who fears listening. They do everything they can to discredit listening as a test from ABX to outrightt name calling. You cannot have a cooking test without tasting because tasting is what it's all about. In the final analysis, it always comes down to listening. As some one else on this forum has already pointed out we can never know what the the listener actually heard. We have to take his word for it.
Here is my question. Why have I heard speaker systems in great rooms which measure terrific but does nothing for my ears? Also I have heard systems that measure just OK but sound terrific. I have also heard several systems in the the same day all of which measure terrific but only one sounded good to me
Ron
Where is Kal, cuz here is one for him.....I have often wondered if all of us have some frequency which when heard triggers the stimulus of our auditory nerves in different ways. Or as you call it, " everyone has a different flavor preference"
But I already have an EQ which I use to stimulate myself.If that's true, then what the best and brightest of the "high-end" should be working on is measurements - yes, measurements - to find these personal stimulus frequencies, and designing equalizers that adjust recordings on the fly to stimulate them.
P
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