darrenyeats wrote: > Modern sources are all pretty good. The question of whether there are > slight differences is a valid one, but it's less important to me; I > realise "where it's at" and that's mostly acoustics and transducers.
Hi Darren! Being stuck with my sub-optimal square solid room, complete with concrete floor & beam-&-concrete ceiling, I have done my best by getting good stand-mounts & using a distributed twin subwoofer set-up. Under the circumstances it actually sounds surprising good. I should probably put some acoustic panels on the ceiling & stick a bass trap in a spare corner, but I think I've actually got used to the room acoustic & that my brain is to some extent at least filtering out the static reflections which of course arrive at my ears slightly later than the direct sound. Before the savannah period our ancestors lived in wooded areas where there would be lots of static reflections, so it is not totally crazier that Natural Selection may have endowed us with an ability to do this which has not disappeared (speculative opinion here!). My DAC also sounds very good directly feeding my HD800S cans which are amongst the best dynamic headsets around (& I can then turn the amplifier off!). Of course the soundstage is engineered for loudspeaker listening (where the sound from both speakers reaches both ears) on most, but not all recordings. There's a dummy-head side to the Edgar Froese (of Tangerine Dream) "Aqua" album which was also released on CD. Dave :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
