Now that is a reasonable assumption!
I got tired of piles of 47 foot cables on the floor.
Ron’s New System
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Now that is a reasonable assumption!
I got tired of piles of 47 foot cables on the floor.
As we all know this hobby is a non-linear process. The fact that I often post my thoughts virtually stream-of-consciousness in real time definitely makes things confusing for readers. I'm focusing on one issue, and I post about it. Later I'm focusing on a different issue and I post about it. But I don't necessarily talk about how they relate.
There is no doubt -- to me, anyway -- the Jadis provided welcome weightiness in the upper bass to lower midrange. I thought-- I assumed -- I needed to keep pushing on that lever.
I don't feel that way anymore. When the Grado Epoch 3, with its lower sonic "center of gravity" than the ZYX, goes on the 5T, I may feel I overshot the mark and maybe I will want to remove some acoustic absorption panels.
Maybe switching to EL34s would smooth things out too much.
I wonder if Al would recognize the sound of the system now?
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I don't think the dynamic compression issue raised by Don and Phil has anything to do with the tubes and cables.
Thank you very much! This is how I think of the process.
Unless a consensus of visitors alerts me to an issue I am not presently hearing I am done for now.
Some readers more rigorous and skeptical than I might assume that making the effort of snaking the cable through the conduit before listening tests indicates a prior bias in favor of the more expensive audiophile cable. Not I, and I am just pulling your leg. I don't know what Micro might think.
ZYX UNIverse Premium on Reed 5T.
I am happy to do that sometime.
I think so, at least for now. Will I come to feel that the elimination of the excessive sibilance has concomitantly smoothed things over unnaturally?
The last thing I listened to last night was "Eleanor Rigby," and I liked it the most I've ever heard it here.
I always like to read peoples' opinions! I always consider it "food for thought."
Thank you!
I did not think you were.
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Some readers more rigorous and skeptical than I might assume that making the effort of snaking the cable through the conduit before listening tests indicates a prior bias in favor of the more expensive audiophile cable. Not I, and I am just pulling your leg. I don't know what Micro might think.
That would be a fair allegation of potential bias. But if I can hear the reduction in exaggerated sibilance and change in tonal balance, I think any audiophile would be able to hear it.
I have to be in just the right frame of mind with the right amount of patience to perform a procedure like the cable snaking. I had a window of time yesterday to do it.
I'm not a cable denier; I'm not a cable skeptic. As I've written in detail elsewhere I just think it's very difficult to predict in advance which cable a particular audiophile is going to prefer between any two particular components in his/her own particular system.
When the owner of a cable company says on a public video that she personally prefers, in her own personal system, one of her products which costs I think 1/4 of the cost of her top-of-the-line product I think it's a preference worth listening to. I am still using Cardas Clear Beyond interconnect everywhere else.
Through a lot of Internet research I don't think I have ever seen a comment, ever, anywhere, that a Cardas cable contributed to unnatural brightness on a system. So for these admittedly non-experience-based reasons -- and the fact that I could custom-order it without rhodium -- I thought the Clear Reflection was worth try.
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Can’t you just move the preamp and DAC temporarily into the main room to get the answer?
It behaves like one electrically…it is still essentially a flat foil.
It kind of begs the question…Did Ron hear what his friends claimed to hear? If not, then unless someone tells him he wouldn’t know if the “problem “ went away…
What I am hearing now sounds like less like an electronic recording, and more like a person in the room. When the electronic recording process adds sibilance, do we want to keep that sibilance through our systems?
The answer depends entirely on one's high-end audio objective: "reproduce exactly what is on the tape, vinyl or digital source being played," versus "re-create the sound of an original musical event."
My objective is the latter. I'm trying to re-create an audience member's experience, not the microphone's experience.
The answer depends entirely on one's high-end audio objective: "reproduce exactly what is on the tape, vinyl or digital source being played," versus "re-create the sound of an original musical event."
My objective is the latter. I'm trying to re-create an audience member's experience, not the microphone's experience.
In my opinion, passing judgment on the amount of sibilance on one recording is not a rigorous enough investigation. Vocals to have sibilance in real life. It’s a matter of degree. Just ask someone to repeat this sentence to you aloud.
To understand what the cables are doing, I would listen to a whole range of recordings or a few that I know very well to be natural sounding based on hearing them in a variety of systems.
Putting it differently, can't I just be happy with the sound now?
No.
Unless you switch to SETs and horns, some will always pester you.
Nah, of course you can be happy with your sound!!
Putting it differently, can't I just be happy with the sound now?
Of course you can. Enjoy!
Definitely.
When you listen to a record, and the record is a recording of somebody singing into a microphone, and the electronic recording process records sibilance which is exaggerated compared to what you would have heard if you had been listening to that person live and unamplified in person, what do you want your audio system to do with that exaggerated sibilance?
if recording is adding sibilance, yes I won’t want to take it off as I cannot adjust a system to change the frequency response for each recording without using EQ. If it bothers me so much. I will just choose a recording without sibilance.
were all vocals in your system playing with sibilance?
btw, I have no idea if fields of gold has sibilance or not. I assume it doesn’t
What if adding sibilance to the recording is endemic to most recording systems?