30 years ago I first achieved, and shocked myself, by getting "special" sound - which I also call convincing or competent audio reproduction. I didn't intend to do so, it just happened a result of a set of steps of refining, improving the system at the time - what apparently was given the title of POOGE by some people, but I was never aware of this "movement".
To kick off, as a I mentioned elsewhere I'll just focus on the speakers, because most people would tune into this as being a smart approach - but it's just part of the overall package. Anyway, just the speakers for the moment ...
The speaker were bought second hand from a friend, for some nominal amount - we had other speakers, but in the house at the time there was a very large open plan living space, and there were two proper "hifi" setups - vinyl at one end, CD at the other. And the completely different speakers, by Technics, were used for the vinyl, which was there first - we needed extra speakers for the digital setup, and she wanted to upgrade ...
They were B&W DM10s, this picture makes it easy to assess their size:
(Takes a breather, heads off for some lunch ...)
To kick off, as a I mentioned elsewhere I'll just focus on the speakers, because most people would tune into this as being a smart approach - but it's just part of the overall package. Anyway, just the speakers for the moment ...
The speaker were bought second hand from a friend, for some nominal amount - we had other speakers, but in the house at the time there was a very large open plan living space, and there were two proper "hifi" setups - vinyl at one end, CD at the other. And the completely different speakers, by Technics, were used for the vinyl, which was there first - we needed extra speakers for the digital setup, and she wanted to upgrade ...
They were B&W DM10s, this picture makes it easy to assess their size:
(Takes a breather, heads off for some lunch ...)