I bet you're picky about what food you buy.
I bet you're picky about what food you buy.
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I'm Paul.
I think that some hifi manufacturers are very well aware of this and use it to their own ends, but not in a good way. I was at a show where a design guy of a high end US speaker manufacturer was dictating to people what big band music should sound like, which just happened to be exactly what his speakers sounded like...
I thought the speakers sounded good in some ways but a little odd. They seemed to pump out too much bass into female vocals, which gave a nice breathy, full sound, but just not right to my ears.
I am uneasy with this idea that if you don’t like something it’s because you don’t understand what good sounds like. You like it or you don’t.
~Paul~
Yep, I have been party to all that over the years Geoff. As a result I don't buy any of it myself as I tend to cook everything from scratch.
To be honest a lot of food products now have far fewer additives than they used to as the supermarket brand standards are now much higher.
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I'm Dennis.
We do habituate to a type of Hi-Fi sound, surely this is a part of extracting as much as we can from sound, which in normal life would be a survival mechanism.
Hearing the real thing probably is essential, although haven't been to a live concert since '75, Queen in Hyde Pk.
Being without Hi-Fi for six months has enabled me to re-calibrate and become aware of many natural sounds to which I had become oblivious.
Spot on. I like it when non-enthusiasts come round and have a listen, if they say it sounds good you know you are onto something because they don't have the baggage of the audiophile who can ignore the overall hard distortion in the sound because he is concentrating on how real the trumpet sounds and whether it is playing 'in time' with the sax.
You only need a trained listener if you want to analyse the sound, to see why it sounds like it does, to pick out the problems. Not to tell you if it sounds good or not.
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I'm joe.
This is one of the (many) problems with hifi shows; not only are you listening to unknown equipment in an unfamiliar and probably unsuitable room, nine times out of ten the music being played is so dire that no rational person would choose to listen to it. Either that, or it's 'easy' music; girl/guitar or jazz trio. Which might also be dire, of course.