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    Should your HiFi components have character? That spelling dint look proper? Anyhoo should your amp Dac or speakers have a sound? Or should your gear just be neutral?
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    Don't we all tailor our systems to the sound we want/like? When we add a component we don't like I suspect it is because we don't like it's character? If a system doesn't have character then it must be very boring.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Puffin View Post
    Don't we all tailor our systems to the sound we want/like? When we add a component we don't like I suspect it is because we don't like it's character? If a system doesn't have character then it must be very boring.
    I get your point, often amp cd Dac makers say they've produced their gear so you can hear exactly what the musician wanted, so the gear they produce has no influence?
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    I guess you mean that any deviation from perfection is 'character'.

    Nothing is perfect, so everything has character.

    Embrace it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jandl100 View Post
    I guess you mean that any deviation from perfection is 'character'.

    Nothing is perfect, so everything has character.

    Embrace it!
    I don't have an issue with kit having it's own character, just wondered if folk want utter neutral gear or a bit of that there Character? As the artist intended is often a manufacturer blurb but that's bollox? Production fooks that up, so a bit of character might help?
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    In my experience, a lot of makes have a "house sound", a set of characteristics which gives all of their gear a similar character that differentiates them from other makes.
    Sometimes this house sound evolves with time - Naim did that, very different characteristic sound now from what they were to start with.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jandl100 View Post
    In my experience, a lot of makes have a "house sound", a set of characteristics which gives all of their gear a similar character that differentiates them from other makes.
    Sometimes this house sound evolves with time - Naim did that, very different characteristic sound now from what they were to start with.
    Big ask! Do you reckon amp/ source / speakers have the biggest influence, or might have the biggest influence? In this regard? Have I opened a previous can?
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    That seems to be being partly addressed in this thread atm -- http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...435#post959435
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    Quote Originally Posted by jandl100 View Post
    That seems to be being partly addressed in this thread atm -- http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...435#post959435
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    I think that a lot of marketing departments of hifi equipment manufactures like to talk a good neutrality, but really people who want to enjoy listening to music don't really want it. I think it is that unplaceable musicality that is wanted and ultimately draws you in.
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