Hi all
My name is Nuno, I’m from Portugal and I have been listening to music everyday since I was a baby (my first most beloved toy was a radio). When I successfully finished a very critical project in 99 I earned a relevant money prize and I could spend it all in my first more serious hifi system. Still not knowing much about the technical part of the topic but continuing to enjoy music – now with a significantly better sound. And that continued for the following 21 years. Same system – not carefully placed (specially the loudspeakers) – but lots of music, old and new one discovered every week.
Everything changed last year, when I had to move from my previous house and when arriving to the new one I had no clew how to define the layout of the living room and where to put the stereo and the loudspeakers. And I started to read about the topic – and this started the “disgrace” . When, after several attempts of layout, I could for the first time hear a soundstage and have the notion of imaging, a full new world opened to me….
Since then I moved everything back and forth, installed REW, purchased a mic, offered my previous stereo system to my son, purchased a new one, applied acoustic treatment to the room, etc, etc, etc…
And now I have a serious music room where friends (and myself) come to cry.
Until now I was following several hocus-pocus and sooooo-subjective reviewers and audio commentators and now I found you. And I’m so happy for that! Thanks a lot Amir and all the members for the truly wonderful content you make available here.