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In Reply to: RE: IME, Scrith is not entirely wrong posted by Beetlemania on April 11, 2012 at 09:18:47
"Reading these forums gave me the impression that all kinds of stuff makes a big difference . . . and I figured I'd risk "broken" sonics if I didn't get it just so"
I think we can use this as the standing definition for COMPUTER audiophile nervosa. Every single variable in a living breathing computer OS makes a difference, and there are 1 x 10^237 iterations of these variables. Must try each one in late night subjective listening tests.
Must OPTIMIZE everything. Must SYNERGIZE everything. Must TWEAK everything. And I mean the differences are 'NOT SUBTLE' and 'WIFE HEARD IT IN THE NEXT ROOM' differences. Or, (this is my favorite) 10 or so tweaks or setting changes may not be individually audible but COLLECTIVELY they add up to sonic nirvana.
If this subgroup of AA did not eventually come down to 100% total audiophile nervosa, well, it wouldn't belong on this particular site now would it!! ;)
Cheers,
Presto
Follow Ups:
> > > 'WIFE HEARD IT IN THE NEXT ROOM'
Or "component X BLOWS AWAY component Y". Of course, *I* think my Ayre AX-7 "blew away" the NAD receiver it replaced . . . I guess I can be as hypocritical as anyone.
> > > If this subgroup of AA did not eventually come down to 100% total audiophile nervosa
The one regret I have about getting into PC audio is that, so far, I've been far too prone to trying to get better SQ thru' the tweaks rather than just enjoying the music.
... as opposed to "just" music lover.
Computer audio simply gives you many more variables to tweak, but even without it, one can keep himself pretty busy with cables, footers, power tweaks, crystals etc.
I know I do - not all the time though. Sometimes I lose interest in tweaking temporarily, and simply enjoy the music. Usually it's right after I get my hands on a new CD by one of my favorite bands - like right now for instance, with new Eisregen CD (ltd. ed. digipack in A5 format), pictured below.
This applies to ALL things audiophile, INCLUDING Computer Audio.I think that us getting nervosa about it means that computer audio has finally come of age and instead of merely just being impressed, we're now on to the NEXT stage:
Obsession.
Cheers,
Presto
Edits: 04/11/12
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