Curt962;617979 Wrote: > I've never known an audiophile that was happy with the achieved result. > If they were, they'd be called "Musicphiles". > > What makes one feel warm and fuzzy today...is a source of angst in the > months to come. As soon as ONE reviewer hears something wrong, the > quest begins anew. > > Honestly (and I put myself at the head of this line) I believe that > audiophiles seek a "sound" that is highly articulated, and > stylized....and not in my experience anything like that encountered in > the vast majority of live music performances! I get to hear my fair > share of live music (Jazz, etc), and that "sound" would be laughed out > of any hi-end parlor I've ever visited. Especially if there is any > sort of amplification involved, the bass is a rubberized-wool, > monotonic droning, the drum is sort of buried in there, the horn is > blatting all over everything, and forget any sense of > "imaging"....unless you're actually LOOKING at the ensemble. This > is from 10 feet away..... > > If yours or mine audio system sounded like that....it'd be parked on > the curb as fast as we could get it out of the house. > > Trying to keep it all in perspective...for myself anyway.
This is such a great post - thank you for brightening up my day! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86298 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
