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In Reply to: Assembling a Good Audio System – black art or not? posted by John C. - Aussie on March 1, 2006 at 19:08:28:
Certain criteria indeed can be very helpful to the assemblidge of a kit that can provide high enjoyment from the abyss of source material. One must consider that he/she really has no idea what the actual source material "sounds like" unless he/she attended the mastering session or the live recording if no mastering session (recalibration) was performed. This itself is where the black art comes to play.How can a system "sound good" on a vast array of source material if it is not inducing some distortions of its own to maintain a pleasing if not euphoric experience, most of the time? The answer is, none can "please" on all source material all of the time.
Some sacrifices are of order.
Areas NOT to sacrifice:
Room acoustics, loudspeaker positioning, loudspeaker quality.
(Predictable room acoustics with minimal launch reflections)
(Loudspeaker placed where they perform their best with various sources)
(Loudspeakers that do not call attention to themselves at various volume levels over as wide bandwidth as possible)Certainly other "tweak" factors can change perception but to state that X brand of loudspeakers with Y brand of amplifier "gurantees" any level of performance without the consideration of room treatment and experimentation with placement is simply a pipe dream of a large order.
Nothing is guranteed to work as expected. I feel anyone who has achived great enjoyment from their system over a prolonged period of time with a wide variation of source material to be either very lucky, highly skilled or some of both.
Good sound can come at very low price points and band sound from very high.
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- Luck, skill and common sense perhaps? - OTA-ATC 19:55:27 03/01/06 (0)
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