Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
Location: Seaford UK
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I'm Dennis.
A factor which makes it difficult for me is the change in dialect/enunciation from the time of my formative years. If I listen to any TV showing Pathe News it is always intelligible, and Auntie spoke correctly in the 60s and 70s, but they gradually changed.
I struggler with American films to understand much speech, and R4 obscures its lack of really valid argument with poor enunciation, and some inserts are absolutely wordless to me.
Of course wide band speakers makes this worse because of a lack of attention to mic. usage in media generally, and we have proximity effects most of the time. If you listen to the TV news on wideband speakers, you will hear the lavalier mics. under the chins producing a really adulterated FR.
novafidelity x40 music server/pre/dac, Arcam A39, roksan k3 power amp,Monitor Audio Monitor 50, Dali spektor 1, van damme interconnects and speaker cable, roskan k3 CD player
Location: Seaford UK
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I'm Dennis.
I do not consider that a hearing aid will (yet), improve my hearing, and with a change of diet I have improved it and got rid of tinnitus, even gaining a return of some HF in the right ear.
I do not wear glasses, I do eye exercises and eat for my vision.
Location: Seaford UK
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I'm Dennis.
Regarding intelligibility, after years of the Hi-Fi fraternity talking about flat responses, and then a downward sloping one, I have just come across this from an apparently respectable source, and it seems to make a mockery of flat and sloping graphs.
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/f....17598/page-88
Doesn't surprise me. Let a non-discerning listener loose on a Hi-Fi system that has a multiband graphic equaliser and I expect you'd find they'd set it up like that. Plenty of boosted presence and bass!
The top end roll-off is also to be expected, as the average listener may either not understand treble or not be able to hear it clearly.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
An interesting one Dennis,
Obviously we all hear sound diffrently to a degree, but for someone to state that Graph as the norm to strive for i think is a bit misleading.
I did a sweep of my system a while back using a calibrated Mic into a real time analyzer [Mic was placed at the listening position at head height] anyway; i did the sweep using a signal generator and got the result below.
"Today scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality"
Nikola Tesla
Its now a conspiracy theory to believe that the Immune system is capable of doing the job it was designed to do.
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Matthew 5:10
if you read the thread it is relating to headphones, not speakers.
For loudspeakers, studies show preference for a downward curve, level at 20Hz to be 10db higher than level at 20Khz. This is a 75% preference, there will be 1 in four who are outliers who don't like it like that.
if a speaker measures flat in an anechoic chamber then when placed in a room bass frequencies will be boosted by room gain and high frequencies will be attenuated by soft furnishings, thus delivering (roughly) the generally preferred balance.
This is why it's a good idea to design commercial speakers to have a flat response anechoically, more people will like them and you will therefore sell more of them.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
Location: Seaford UK
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I'm Dennis.
I realised that Macca, but it is seemingly rather extreme, and to me rather unexplainable.
I also agree with Geoff's point re. graphic equaliser, but not about the top which can often stick out as a separate entity.