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What makes biggest difference in sound
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I'll go old school and say the recording
Speakers and Rooms may have been better separated... combined together, the results should be interesting.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I equalized my hearing so that I don't have to futz around equalizing for speakers and the room.
How come you haven't voted yet?
PuFF... PuFF... pass... pass... over to @pseudoid. LoL.Speakers and Rooms may have been better separated... combined together, the results should be interesting.
Thank you.
I equalized my hearing so that I don't have to futz around equalizing for speakers and the room.
I also got accused of whiskey earlier.. twice. Spies must have infiltrated my vidcam.
I am waiting for uppers or downers or microdosing accusations soon.
H2O and espresso suffices!
I am waiting for uppers or downers or microdosing accusations soon.
H2O and espresso suffices!
Keith_W
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Where is the "cable lifter" option?
For me:
- Speakers the most difference
- Then the room
- Then DSP
... in that order.
For me:
- Speakers the most difference
- Then the room
- Then DSP
... in that order.
Where does WAF fit and shouldn't it come way before cable lifters?Where is the "cable lifter" option?
For me:
- Speakers the most difference
- Then the room
- Then DSP
... in that order.
sam_adams
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In my experience, A receiver/amp makes the biggest difference. I mean if amps didn't matter, we all would be using amps like the Kinter MA170+. I dealt with a chunk of amps that have varying characteristics: Power, Clarity, Noise, Stability, DSP.
If I had a 2nd vote, I would also vote for "Speakers and Rooms" but my 1st vote will still remain for "Amps". It's pretty hard to pick a bad speaker and bad DAC these days. If your speakers are built/perform good enough, you can run them without any EQ like the "ELAC Debut 2.0 B6.2". Speakers are like Cars, you know. If you pay a good amount, you'll have a car that performs well without any tuning/mods (Just buy and punch the throttle) but you'll get some grease monkey talking your ear off about how you can tune/map the engine, change out this and that to make more power.
I still feel half and half about "Sources" being my 1st vote. Its all genre & year dependent. When it comes to FLAC streaming services, If you listen to a song that comes directly from that release album, chances are that it's gonna sound decent to good (If its 70s and 80s, possibly 90s). 50s and 60s "pop/rock" music most of the time is on compilation albums.
If I had a 2nd vote, I would also vote for "Speakers and Rooms" but my 1st vote will still remain for "Amps". It's pretty hard to pick a bad speaker and bad DAC these days. If your speakers are built/perform good enough, you can run them without any EQ like the "ELAC Debut 2.0 B6.2". Speakers are like Cars, you know. If you pay a good amount, you'll have a car that performs well without any tuning/mods (Just buy and punch the throttle) but you'll get some grease monkey talking your ear off about how you can tune/map the engine, change out this and that to make more power.
I still feel half and half about "Sources" being my 1st vote. Its all genre & year dependent. When it comes to FLAC streaming services, If you listen to a song that comes directly from that release album, chances are that it's gonna sound decent to good (If its 70s and 80s, possibly 90s). 50s and 60s "pop/rock" music most of the time is on compilation albums.
Yes
I'm not saying you should spend more on an amp compared to the price of your speakers. I'm saying that you shouldn't spend $15 on an amp instead spend that on a $300 or less amp.
Neither should you buy a $15 speaker..
To reflect back at you:
I mean, if speakers didn’t matter, we all would be using a <<insert super cheap crappy speaker model>>.
See, I can do that as well
Far point.Neither should you buy a $15 speaker..
To reflect back at you:
I mean, if speakers didn’t matter, we all would be using a <<insert super cheap crappy speaker model>>.
See, I can do that as well
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I voted for room.
Even the best speakers will sound terrible in a terrible room.
Even the best speakers will sound terrible in a terrible room.
ZolaIII
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Well I woted first and room at the first place. Deacent speakers can be EQ-ed to sound fairly nice with a sub or two in a not horrible room. Of course size of speakers and sub's depends on size space they they need to feel and towards proper calibration SPL (86~88 dB white noise stereo or 83~85 dB mono) and mile or two more for those who want it really, really loud of course. This doesn't mean I am keen on skipping corners with anything else especially which helps with room and proper fine behaving components all the way, just that I don’t chase imaginary perfect end game one's.
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I think the poll would be more meaningful, if we add the "excluding obviously incompetent designs / clearly sub-par quality products / clearly outdated concepts" reservation.
Everything can be made to sound really bad, but considering what is commonly available today at reasonable cost, I think it is safe to say that modern amplifiers, DACs and audio formats are good enough and cables were really never a problem. That leaves room acoustics, speakers and headphones as the ones where a significant difference can be found (and let's add turntable cartridges to those of us who insist on vinyl format).
Everything can be made to sound really bad, but considering what is commonly available today at reasonable cost, I think it is safe to say that modern amplifiers, DACs and audio formats are good enough and cables were really never a problem. That leaves room acoustics, speakers and headphones as the ones where a significant difference can be found (and let's add turntable cartridges to those of us who insist on vinyl format).
