Jonathan DA
Screenwriter
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2002
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I am putting together my new system by determining the best engineering, build quality, and feature set available within my price range. The practice of listening to components at stores to decide how they'll sound in your system is fundamentally flawed. How many times have you gone shopping for a specific component, say a preamp as I am shopping for now, and been able to listen to every preamp in the same store with the same system? 99% of the time you have to go to different stores and listen to different preamps in different rooms on different days. There is NO WAY you can actually tell if the preamp is affecting the sound with that many variables involved. Heck, whether or not you're feeling pressured by the salesman at the time will affect how you perceive the sound. Now sometimes you can take a couple of units home and audition them in your system under the same circumstances. However, in that case you're still gonna be swayed by things like how well one preamp looks next to your amplifier. For instance, I don't like black components; I automatically think they will sound harsh because of all the crap I've read about how Japanese mid-fi electronics with lots of negative feedback used to sound so horrible. And most Japanese mid-fi stuff is black. What gibberesh. I fight my own preconceived notions way too much. If you spent $230 on a power cable that is made from $10 worth of parts from Home Depot, you're gonna convince yourself it sounds better. For me it's double-blind all the way.
What? I'm off-topic? Sorry. I'll show up no matter what we do, just cuz it's fun to hang out and listen/watch.
Jonathan
What? I'm off-topic? Sorry. I'll show up no matter what we do, just cuz it's fun to hang out and listen/watch.
Jonathan