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In Reply to: RE: Infinity IRS Betas posted by Ampzilla on February 12, 2015 at 12:28:27
I certainly enjoyed seeing the system and the info about it. But on my computer the Betas sounded just like my computer speakers. Why do people waste time demoing a system on the internet when all you get is your computer?
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I have settled that issue: I watch youtube on my plasma teevee complete with a sound bar!
"Why do people waste time demoing a system on the internet when all you get is your computer?"
Headphones?
There is a guy at a site in Asia that drags the same jazz recording around in his travels and plays it at every shop he visits.
The most natural sounding speakers seem to be a set of Quad 57's and a system with WE555's (which I thought sounded more natural than the Quad 57's).
Then the sound is the sound of the head phones, still not of the speaker, no matter how good the head phones sound. So still a useless demo fo the system.
I disagree, it is easy to weed out the horrible sounding speakers this way.
In your own ways, you're both right, and, in other ways, you're both wrong.
On the one hand, attempting to hear what a speaker sounds like, after being recorded in a room of unknown characteristics, by a microphone of unknown quality and characteristics and with unknown placement, compressed onto YT, etc., is ultimately a poor way to pass judgement on the speaker.
On the other hand, if the recording sounds (through your speakers) at least "reasonably balanced" and doesn't have obviously offensive flaws such as 'honky-ness' or 'no bass', etc., AND your speakers and room aren't obviously colored or deficient to some excessive degree, then there's a chance that, if the orignial speakers/microphones/room recording chain are reasonably decent, we CAN make a preliminary judgement about the recording chain.
I played the clip through my stereo, which is reasonably decent and has flaws with which I'm familiar. This "demo" sounded mostly innocuous - other than the usual room sound influences, lack of realistic bass and not much treble, etc. Still, for TV audio, it sounded ok.
With any lack of on-site experience with this recording, it's impossible to know if the speakers are worth $500 or $50,000. This is ONE area where the marketing comes in.
:)
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