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In the Thread: Be careful: Imaging vs. Compression
Post Subject: Level 4 listening objectivesPosted by Fox on: 2/15/2006
Hi Romy,
It is with great interest that I frequently visit your site and enjoy your observations on audio-moronity. While I have to admit that I am at a loss wether I could be qualified for being an audio-moron, I can live with the fact that others observe me as such.
Being a sensitive type of guy, my aim has always been to enjoy a piece of music. As such, I have always been surprised by the fact that the resellers and reviewers I have been confronted with, start describing the sound of a HiFi-system at the level you describe as "#1", whereas I approach the sound of a system from your level #4. According to me, music - whether recorded or performed - urges one to make sense of it. The more I am able to appreciate the meaning (or lack of it for that matter) of a piece of recorded music, the better I appreciate the system.
Recently I experienced the phenomenon you describe as "DPLOS proximity". During the christmas holidays I moved my carefully positioned speakers somewhat due to the fact that our large christmas tree needed to be placed between them. When the christmas tree was removed after the holidays, I repositioned the speakers in proximity to their former place and tried to appreciate a well loved piece of music. The sound did not captivated me as much as before. Dozens of recordings later, I had to admit to myself that my system was doing something different than before. The only thing that was changed, was the relative position of the speakers in our living-room. It took me several weeks of repositioning the speakers by fractions of inches to attain the "meaningful" sound I was accustomed to.
Well to cut a long story short, my wife nearly got me hospitalized for suffering from audio-moronity
I am glad to have learned that others have experienced the same phenomenon.
All the best,
Fox
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