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Name: 2000 Man
E-Mail: latrobe33@gmail.com
Subject: In Eternal Pursuit Of The "Sweet Spot" For Max Joy
Date: Sunday, January 18, 2015
Time: 6:13:55 AM
Remote Address: 75.118.20.107
Message ID: 291164
Parent ID: 291147
Thread ID: 291147
I've got a tone defeat button on my receiver. It's called "Pure Direct," which is marketing speak for tone defeat. Instead of sending the signal through the tone control portion of things, the signal goes as recorded, directly from the source to the amplifier. It bypasses bass, treble, balance, loudness, all that stuff. I've got small bookshelf speakers on stands and a powered subwoofer, and that's where I get things the way I want them. I have the subwoofer cutoff around 80hz. My speakers say they'll do like 47hz on their own, but the woofer in those is actually used as a mid-bass driver in bigger models and I think taking the extemes of their range away and passing it off to the subwoofer makes the speaker and the amplifier work easier. If I want more bass, I use the volume on the sub, but I'm really only trying to get some feel from the kick drum with the sub. I'm not looking for rattling the house because I'm looking for what a band sounds like in a room the size of mine.
I'm a firm believer that double blind testing of audio components is a good thing, so I don't waste money on cables, power conditioners and crap like that. I live in a house with a furnace and other people, so any difference provided by those cables would be negated as soon as the boiler decides to heat up, or my wife takes a shower or whatever. I think tubes are way too hard to keep in spec and I believe that properly designed amplifiers should all sound essentially the same. If they don't, then they're designed to sound a certain way, and I want to hear what the producers were hearing. When push comes to shove, I think what the original producers do affects the sound far more than any "remastering" or tube amps or 3000 dollar cables will. Those pillows to put your amplifier on, or specially tuned rocks and stupid wood candleabras are snake oil, and I don't know why people are so willing to buy stupid shit like that.
My car is different. It's just a stock stereo in there. it sounds pretty good. I set it and forget it, but the bass and treble are both turned up a little.
Can you still get a portable cd player? Why would you want one? A Sansa Clip+ 4GB player with an expansion micro SD slot is less than 40 bucks. Some people like to use their phones as a front end, but I don't like that. But I can't see carrying more than one or two cd's around, and a Clip is smaller than a lighter so I like those a lot.
It's all subjective, and I bet a whole bunch of us don't even really have a "stereo" anymore. Those Bose Waves and iPod docks seem to be the way the kids are going these days. I still just like stereo for music (surround mixes bug me and a decent amplifier that does multi channel is way too expensive), but I've heard some of the Sonos wireless systems and I think they flat out suck. I mean, yeah, they sound pretty good for wireless, but I want the best sound for my money. So I stick with two channel stereo and records and cd's.
I mostly just go to small concerts, so I move around until I like my spot. Usually close to the bar!
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