What is good sound? I have asked myself many times and on each period of time I came up with different realization, as audio progresses. New horizons accord new wisdom, I only have my naive to blame. Tonality, refinement, texture, dynamics, transparency, neutrality so on and so forth, you see, I was led by the media, reviews and audio gurus.
Good sound to me on this day is about sound that moves you, the rest is irrelevant. Digging down, the absence of digital glare, restrained dynamics and pinpoint imaging, on digital playback, these are an outright impediment to good sound. Vinyl playback is reign king only with analogue recording, the digital recorded vinyl is sitting near to digital flavor. Furthermore, good vinyl playback is costly. It is me, value proposition is important unless you are top 1% income earner who care less about value but only the best. You buy the best system, the end of the story and let the rest envy.
Digital glare is a digital playback nightmare particularly on human voices, I can't stand the ear piercing with a metallic tailing sibilance. Taming this is priority number one. Restrained dynamics needless to say rob the life of music, the recording quality is part to be blame. Choose a dynamic sounding system, this is easy solution. Now, pinpoint imaging will be controversial. It often relates to small scale sound where everything is downsized. It will be pinpoint if you listened to big system.
The other quality should not go unnoticed is the ease of sound. Welcome to the realm of big drivers. You may now notice that big subwoofers are a part of the package fill the bottom void. Big scale is a lot of fun. The sonic fabric changes with the introduction of big subwoofers, how can one explain the expansive highs and the free-er mids given the segregation lower octaves? Anyone? The stretched sonic fabric nevertheless introduces anxiety.
Phase coherence too is another issue. Do you ever notice that most speakers with exotic tweeters inclined to "shout". They present a forwardness where the female voices are running ahead leaving her band behind. Not from the same fabric if I may put it this way though many are sworn by it.
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