@erik_squires
" My home is nothing like that, but that is what I strive for.
what do you have for a system currently ?
Opinion: Turning Off the Filtering
Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to share with all of you some of my thoughts and one of the ways in which I most enjoy listening to music.
Have you ever spend a day in a noisy office, trying to talk to others? Or in a room with terrible acoustics, having a discussion? Have you felt yourself tired and exhausted after that? A lot of times our brain is working to filter out sounds in order to process words. To find the symbols which make up language in spite of the noise, reflections that we may find ourselves in.
This is what I most want to get rid of when I listen to music. It is why acoustics and speakers with dispersion control are so incredibly important to me. I want that utter ease, that ability to turn off all that processing and just listen. You may not have noticed this yet, so I'd like you to think about this, see if you can notice your brain shifting modes.
To me the best systems are the one's that are like being in the great outdoors. That feeling you get when your eyes can see for miles without interruption, but for my ears and brain instead of my eyes.
Is this you? Or did you not know this was you yet? :)
Best,
Erik
Just wanted to share with all of you some of my thoughts and one of the ways in which I most enjoy listening to music.
Have you ever spend a day in a noisy office, trying to talk to others? Or in a room with terrible acoustics, having a discussion? Have you felt yourself tired and exhausted after that? A lot of times our brain is working to filter out sounds in order to process words. To find the symbols which make up language in spite of the noise, reflections that we may find ourselves in.
This is what I most want to get rid of when I listen to music. It is why acoustics and speakers with dispersion control are so incredibly important to me. I want that utter ease, that ability to turn off all that processing and just listen. You may not have noticed this yet, so I'd like you to think about this, see if you can notice your brain shifting modes.
To me the best systems are the one's that are like being in the great outdoors. That feeling you get when your eyes can see for miles without interruption, but for my ears and brain instead of my eyes.
Is this you? Or did you not know this was you yet? :)
Best,
Erik
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Hi Riley, My speakers are all custom made. My living room is a pair of these: https://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-natural-reference-one.html My desktop: https://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-lm-1-bookshelf-version.html That’s just half the equation though. Room acoustics are vital. That all comes from GIK Acoustics Electronics are Mytek Brooklyn DAC, Parasound P7 pre, and ICEPower Class D amps. IC’s are pure silver, balanced custom cables. Speaker wires are 12 guage stranded copper, nothing special. Best, E |
Bass is dependent on placement. The speakers have tremendous amounts of dynamic range as-is, but for movies I add a sub but run these as full-range. There never was, and never has been any "hotness" or need for the speakers to mellow out. If you are thinking of the Golde Ear AMT’s, the NR sounds NOTHING like that. The Mundorf AMT’s are glass smooth, with plenty of dynamic range. You have to understand though that I tuned the crossover and drivers for my own taste from the very beginning. Even with world class tweeters, you can always ruin the sound with a bad crossover, and while the final crossover design is simple, the work in simulation took weeks to get right. The caps did take about 72-100 hours to break in however. A little too fast on the cymbals. I know it was the caps because I recently replaced them and the same thing re-occurred. I will say that if I leave the system off over night and listen... it takes a good 24 hours for the electronics to warm up again. Most who listen say they are transparent and warm sounding. The biggest issue is really the horizontal dispersion is very wide. They need a lot of room to the sides to sound as completely transparent as they can. Compared to the Magico S1 Mk II - Not as bright, more sensitive, same dynamic range, and less boom at the bottom of male voices and piano. When I say they are more sensitive, I mean it. The S1 needs gobs of power by comparison. Best, E |
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One of the best sounding rooms to my ears is the Magico listening room. My home is nothing like that, but that is what I strive for." so if you tuned the crossovers to your own taste and you picked out your equipment......what do you think your system needs to sound like the Magico listening room ? maybe something has to be replaced / upgraded...? |
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