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In Reply to: High Resolution - Fact or Fiction? posted by StephenJK on April 9, 2014 at 05:33:12:
"High Resolution" systems satisfy the mind but "right sounding" systems satisfy the heart, so we might need both of these things to be happening. For many of us, I suspect that the real stumbling block (in high resolution playback) is in our very selves and/or in the rooms that we are stuck with. Rooms and egos, not formats and electronic components, are holding our systems hostage.A good room allows for high resolution playback, a bad room hinders it. Good rooms have low noise floors, do not hamper smooth and extended frequency response and/or dynamics, and allow for spacious soundstaging and realistic imaging - while bad rooms hamper all of those things. Our rooms are "low-rez". And, if our rooms allow for less resolution than a standard vinyl LPs does, then it's safe to say that we have a problem!
Remember also that bigger rooms are better then smaller ones (for the most part). Bigger rooms allow for the best in high resolution playback. We cannot always afford bigger rooms but room size might be even more important, from an acoustical standpoint, than room dimensions are. Consider the puniness of your room then, as it is one more limiting factor in your pursuit of high resolution playback.
Additionally, I think that people tend to pick and choose the aspects of "high resolution" that they like best, hi-fi be damned. The sonic aspects that flatter our egos and/or our present systems are favored over those aspects that expose too many weaknesses. So, in many ways, "hi-rez" is a moot issue...
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- It's a fictional fact... - genungo 10:58:12 04/09/14 (1)
- RE: It's a fictional fact... - StephenJK 11:07:21 04/09/14 (0)
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