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In the Thread: Balance
Post Subject: BalancePosted by Romy the Cat on: 8/2/2014
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This is an interesting subject that fascinates me recently. I have
a listening room with pretty good playback custom-build for it. All together it
produces a fine result and perfectly complies with general objectives of
high-end audio. For a last few years I do not involved in a lot of action with
my playback. It is more or less matured and all the I do is juts turn playback
on, palsy music and do some occasional calibrations, adjustment of bias, change
tubes and so on, more maintenance then developed tasks. The
introduction of new PP+ last year still goes with maintenance. The character of
sound of my playback is the very same for years and I pretty content with it.
Earlier this year I was experimented with bringing sound to deck
and discover that if drive Bose SoundDock not from MP3 file but via a cable
from headphone outlet of my preamp then I get very acceptable sound for casual
listening. It kind of ridicules to have a super-duper performing front- end and
drive it to Bose SoundDock but I do and I am fine with it.
Lately I begin to observe an interesting phenomena. When I want to
do non-critical music listening, not on deck, in spa or on pool but in my
listening room then more and more often I do not run of via Macondo but use the
Bose boom-box. It is not a competition of sound quality of cause but rather a
feeling of balance how much efforts I want to spend for what kind level of
satisfaction. It is not to mention that from my quite advanced and acquired
taste the sonic result I’m getting from the boom-box is more interesting than
95% of “unintelligent” super-duper Hi-Fi installation out there.
I do have my MiniMe pilot system about which I written in past and
that meant to run when I do not want to burn Milq tubes, however, the stinky
Bose radio very substantially over perform them. In addition Bose is
self-powered – very convenient…
So, the question is: how much quality do we need, particularly
considering the majority of our recordings are severely compromised by barbaric
editing?
I do not advocate the lowering our demands in sound reproduction.
All that I am doing is observing the tendency of a person who does have very
high reference points in sound reproduction and does have a well performing
playback available for him. So, what is it? Is it some kind of changes in me or
it is some kind of “false flag” in the whole high-end audio idea?
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