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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
It seems quite a bit like the fastest cars and so on. When people reach the point they can afford it, often their reflexes aren't good enough to get anywhere near the limits of the car. If they ever were in the first place.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
I must do something for my home office. There's a particularly annoying spot where the bass is unbearable even at sensible volumes. It's in the same place if bin lorries are in the street or there's roadworks.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
In my ear-memory, the best sound I ever heard was when I payed in a band back in Uni days, we went to a residential studio in Wales (can’t remember what it’s called), with a pro engineer, and forget the music for the moment, the sound coming straight off 2” tape through massive pro monitors in a large treated control room was utterly epic. To this day, I prefer the sound of good studio monitors to “hi fi”.
Or a couple of tickets for some stadium gigs. Not too many, obviously, as they are very pricey these days.
Too often, music used for demos at HiFi shows is of the highest sound quality. That's obviously understandable from a vendor's perspective, but I make sure a take some of my own tracks if I'm serious about auditioning something. Even at some high end shows, I've found retailers willing to give me some time to play my own music through their gear.
I once got the Linn folks to play a Led Zeppelin album; it sounded pretty bad.
Anything with a subwoofer gets subjected to Prisms by 65daysofstatic, which goes very, very deep, and has samples that cut not-on-the-zero-crossing. Any flub is exposed.
A million dollars and they are playing it in a square room with thick shag carpet on the floor.
Audiophiles make me laugh.
No studio would do this.
I have active ATC's and I have Kii Three BXT's here.
With a system other than the Kii's then the thing that matters the most is the room.
It isn't the preamp or the power amp, or the fucking power cable.
With the Kii's and their active cardioid bass, the room matters less but I still spent quite a lot of money getting that as right as I could with the money that I had.
Some of the best sounding rooms are made Northward Acoustics, where the speakers are decoupled from the room.
They are worth checking out.
Definitely not family friendly but these are for mixing in.
But there are loads of people making good records in much less expensive studios.
For listening, it doesn't really matter.
The reason that studios are the way they are is we look for *neutrality* above all else.
Because translation matters- being able to have your mixes move from room to room, system to system with the minimal amount of compromise or issues arising from the mix.
It doesn't really make sense to, as a listener, duplicate the room of a mix or mastering engineer.
You don't need neutrality.
The number of audiophiles who *think* they can hear the difference between quite minimal components when it is really marketing and the physical look of a product that impacts just as much.
I did a test recently with some folks where I recorded a section of audio with £3000 converters and £100 converters and asked them to choose which was which and which one they preferred. It was roughly 50-50. No one could tell the cheaper converters from the more expensive ones.
In the living rooms I have £500 B&W speakers and either a Rocksan or Denon amplifier.
They are fine.
Yes, the studio sounds better but that is because the room is better and you can hear the improvements.
Putting £5k+ of electronics in a room that doesn't have enough bass trapping is just dumb, imho.
It is like putting Wagyu beef in a hotdog.
What is the point?
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
I expect you can get 99 percent of the way there for the fraction of the cost anyway.