Monday, February 29, 2016

Getting to the bottom of it

Readers love to read stories with flair of writing, top stories like new state of the art (SOTA), the typical A vs B bout, David versus Goliath and a new component breaking new ground are a seller. These stories underlines audio consumerism, consistently sending a message your audio system is not good enough. Fanning audio fantasies, one upgrade after another opening cans of worms. This is not what you'll get here, I'm done with all that.

I approach audio from overall system package, the intelligence of putting up a system and acoustic solutions, how little sonic anomalies. Paying attention to details. Your efforts will bring your system to its true value.

Optimisation of sound is the essence of the game. This has since been my endeavor after my attainment of system synergy. No such thing as drop in replacement. Audio in many occasions abides to the principle of "here and there", you add here by subtracting from somewhere. Extending upper frequency extreme, the sound becomes lightweight. Doing the opposite, the sound becomes heavy. Protruding the lower mids will add warmth, protruding the lower treble will intensify the sense of space. This is textbook. Beware, sonic attractiveness is always blinding. When in doubt, go back to basic, tonal balance. This is where experience comes handy, hasten upgrade should be keep at bay.

I know there are folks who resist to tweaking, preferring neat looking system. And often, a room with amber space don't sound good. Well, what ever makes them happy. Any system regardless of price benefits from tweaking, that's my opinion. Mind you, over-tweaking is neither a good thing. I'm reluctant to show you my room for one obvious reason, controversial tweaking. Even my audio components don't line up straight, but unorthodoxly zig zag. The sound profoundly improved. Sight can in many ways form a preconception. Never a good thing. My one and only merit is sonic performance and sonic performance alone.

There are tool to help you on audio course liken compass to sea voyager expeditions. Establish a reference before tweaking. Unamplified classical music is the best there is as reference. Many like to use personal favorite CDs as reference in which the idea isn't a good one unless you have participated the recording process. You know too little about the sound during the recording. Don't pawn away your tonal accuracy. Each instrument carries a distinctive sound to it. It is those signatures we want to hear.

The day you aren't managed to nail down tonal accuracy, high fidelity is still very much implausible. Texture deficiency follows. They don't sound anything at all but restricted to personal liking. Under these circumstances, the system will arguably go down well with audio folks. The pricier the system attracts harsher critic. It's just human nature. Go out and hear the real thing if you are serious with your system.

DIY products are mostly at the mercy of going off track without a control sample. Reputable manufacturers are using competitors' products to keep check on its tonal balance. Calibrate your system once, you are good to run your victory lap.


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