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Post Subject: Strip the Olympian and Enjoy the Journey!Posted by Arno P on: 1/4/2018
In order to answer the
question if the sound of an Olympian is doable at home, it can be
answered in a couple of ways. Using the same components and
configuration, you get the same sound (for the doable part, how much
money can you invest?). With this in mind you should be stripping the
Olympian from all needless aspects, needless for sound I mean. Cut the
bling, wood work etc etc. With a minimalistic version like that, can you
affort the components and can you maintain "listening in the dark"
without the interest of the looks.
Now to the thing that really
matters, it's not the Olympian but it's what gives you the goosebumps
when listening to what music. Is the emotion of the people playing the
music fully transferred to your brain/feeling to experience the similar
deep emotion?
Listening a lot to audio systems and building them you
may discover that experiencing the ultimate musical emotion is not up to
the investment of a system but it is linked to the right balance of all
elements. Eg. listening jerry mulligan 50's vinyl record on my DIY
horn/valve system sucked me into it and I could not get it. Old
recording, mono, lows and highs cut off but the coherence of the
performance and recording made it work...goosebumps (what a waste to
build the over-the-top audioo system over 30+ years ;-)).
Now if
someone could affort an instant purchase of an Olympian set, it can be
appreciated to listen to but frankly I think you would be missing a lot
of the story of enjoying small steps of improvements having your system
grow with you and above all with how you listen to and experience music.
A huge leap doesn't give you a reference you can compare with, small
steps are still digestable to notice and merge into your
audio-gene-experience. A too big chunk will not reveal the details of
all excellent micro-areas of excellence since you never learned to
recognize these.
All in all, think in terms of experiencing musical
emotions and what ever works for you now (and is affordable) will show
it's flaws and you want to make the next very enjoyable upgrade, whether
it is a new component or a simple tweak of the loudspeaker placement.
Enjoy the Journey!
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