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?
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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I guess you mean that any deviation from perfection is 'character'.
Nothing is perfect, so everything has character.
Embrace it!
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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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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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