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The inmates own more than one pair of speakers and a few own several. They must be listening to them depending on the type of music listened. I feel that the choice of speaker to listen may depend on the mood one is in. The case in point is my friend, a senior Attorney, whose habit of listening to Classical music exclusively on his Sonus Faber during the preparation of a major litigation and once the big one is over he switches to a Dali and Jazz. I just wonder what mood the reviewers of speakers are while they listen to them critically. Do they notice differences in the sound quality on different days? Please excuse if I am nitpicking.
I relax and enjoy music when the mood is right but if upset I prefer watching Kill Bill 2.
Cheers
Bill
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I have 3 amps, 2 headphone amps, 2 preamps and 3 sets of speakers and a ton of cables Each combination has "technical" audiophile flaws (not enough of this; too much of that) and a crappy room. Not all speaker/amp combinations are feasible, but many are.
I can hear the differences with different systems, but have given up ascribing differences (in all but the obvious cases - LS35As don't work well with a 45 amp!) to components since i don't ever do any critical listening.
But I like what i hear from all of them as i ramble around the flat (it is open) or my summer place and enjoy changing stuff. I always have the music on.
Observe, before you think. Think before you open your yap. Act on the basis of experience.
Bill-
no doubt that certain brand(s) of speakers do certain genre(s) of music better than others. Nothing wrong w/ owning more than 1 pr of loudspeakers.
Oh, I didnt mean it that way at all. We should have several speakers to suit our mood. I was only wondering how a reviewer would assess one speaker over a long period of time unless the reviewer possesses such solid mental stability. I personally wont be able to do it. Ah, thats why I am no John Marks.
Cheers
Bill
Steve Guttenberg cover this in the May, 2014 Stereophile in As We See It. What he said made perfect sense to me.
I have 2 pair of somewhat vintage speakers: AR-58's with 12"s, a pair of large Advents with 10"s, both refurbished, and a pair of bookshelf Triangle Comete's.
I do tend to listen to more chamber music on my Triangles and more jazz and rock on the others. The Triangles are good to 50hz, but give me more detail with better recordings that offer it. Poorly recorded music don't fair well on the Triangles, but if I really wanted to listen to it I might go the the Advents which don't reveal as much, but I still like them.
Mood has more to do with the music I pick to listen to than my gear. I listen to all of it on my AR's. They are my main speakers. Different and better are often elusive things, at least to me. I am nearly 67 and my hearing is not what it used to be.
Jim Tavegia
It would be easy to claim that the sound pressure created by a pair of speakers was objective, and my emotional state subjective, but... that would be easy.As I have often said, my best critical judgments are retrospective.
Ask me ten years on what I regret not buying... .
I don't know if then you would get "the truth," or instead just what singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler once called "time and wishful half-remembered fantasies... ."
Of course, the fantasies she was referring to, were not audio-related.
ATB,
JM
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way back in the day. But played on my current system, alas, that was no longer the case. So much so that I gave the deck and tapes away, as I knew I would not want to listen to them again.
I think that if your system has been improving (however that might be defined), going back to a former beloved component may disappoint. But I suppose if you are already up high on the audio curve, that might not be the case. Especially in the case of speakers, some have a special gift reproducing certain genres of music.
Steve
John, you made me cry. You know I love my old 1968 Vinyl of White Bird with its roaring violins and gentle guitars.
Heavy heartedly
Bill
A big gun.
JM
At least, it sure looks and sounds like him. Actually, before he even began to play, I recognized the hat. ;)
excel and vary with different genri: as i hear them. I do believe that there are systems that are really good at all types of music. Some of the best systems that I've heard for classical are not so nimble for deep house.
Cheers,
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
Yes, you are right. But what prompted me onto this thought was a discussion about the similarity between the sounds of Harbeth and Spendor. Some slight shift in mood could shift the preference from one to the other I thought. Well, I dont have either and only those with multiple systems can enlighten on this.
Best Wishes
Bill
I remember talking to the guy from Jadis amps outside his room at CES a bunch of years ago. He kept on about not bending the wire, and was only interested in making amps & systems that sounded good with Tchaikovsky and that's it. He was totally hilarious, and garnered much admiration...
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
Years ago there were a number of jokes about adjusting one's azimuth prior to / during listening with substances as varied as there are speakers - or amps for that matter- with the goal of maximizing the experience -
as your post points out - there are other ways to achieve the same effect -
I have many speakers - but most are not connected to the Vinyl system - so for me it is much more of a grab-bag as to how / why I listen to a given pair at a given time....
Happy listening
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