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Top 10 rules for audiophiles

Jun 03, 2021
I don't think it's an exaggeration, this might be the most important video I've ever made because it's about the top ten

rules

for

audiophiles

, at least it's the top ten right now. I could change them in the future, but of course. now the most important

rules

for the hole and rule number one is the most important, let's get that out of the way from the top and you've heard me say this before so it won't surprise anyone, the most important thing an audiophile can do . What you need to do is experiment with speaker placement if when you bought the speakers at home and just placed them where it was convenient you don't get the sound you paid for, it's as simple as that, you have to do it.
top 10 rules for audiophiles
I don't care how much of an expert you are or how experienced you are or how many speakers you have you have to spend the time you have to experiment with the distance how close they are to the wall or more likely how far they are from the wall the distance between both speakers, but the toe-in angle and other aspects of placement are so monumentally important that you have to do it, and if you don't, you literally won't get the sound you pay for, so that's rule number one. The most important thing is that you can stop right now if you are already bored, no, but rule number two is that buying speakers is considering speakers or electronic products or anything based on measurements, that the better measurement products will sound better.
top 10 rules for audiophiles

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That's a silly approach to buying audio. very subjective and personal and the room is your room, simply the measurements can be so misleading that unless you are an engineer, you really dig into the measurements, the measurements are more likely to fool you than help you, and that is the rule . rule number two, number three, digital recordings and analog recordings, both can sound absolutely fantastic, great, without restrictions, the format itself, analog or digital, whether it's an LP, a CD or a file, this has nothing to do with predicting what you will get. on the recording or how good it sounds how real it sounds how much it moves you in any of those examples analog recordings you can do it on LP or something like tape if you prefer or digital on files or CD or streaming, they can all sound really really good, that's rule number three, closely followed by rule number four, which is that analog can sound bad on vinyl records or on tapes and CDs, whether it's digital, whether it's on CD, streaming or MQA, whatever. , they may sound bad, right?
top 10 rules for audiophiles
I'm going to tell you something about whether you're likely to like the sound of the recording. Recording the sound the way they do it, based on the decisions that the engineer, the producers and the band made in terms of how it sounds, what microphones were used, how. microphones replace them as preamplifiers, processing, equalization, compression, a million decisions are made to make the sound of a record and if they are wrong decisions or they are wrong decisions for your aesthetic, it will not sound good, neither analog nor digital, it has little or nothing to do with that, so don't get hung up on analog versus digital, so that was rule number four, so rule number five is simply this when it comes to sound from recordings or a system or speakers or electronic devices , whatever you trust your ears.
top 10 rules for audiophiles
It's your ears or their ears It's your tastes It's what you want from music and no one can really offer any help on that I certainly can't I don't think critics can't I don't think people who own stores or even your smart friends and audio can help you. I think it's something that each of us has to discover on our own what sound makes us happy. Okay, rule number six. No system, no matter how expensive, no matter how expertly configured. the most wonderful room, no matter what happens, no big super duper system can sound like something real that has never happened.
I've heard many, many really expensive systems, very well set up systems, they never ring true, they just don't. It doesn't sound like an orchestra or a rock band or it just doesn't go that way, so having those expectations that suddenly you're going to reach, you're going to pass some threshold and suddenly everything is going to sound real, no, it hasn't. "It hasn't happened, it hasn't happened yet, son, say it'll never happen, it just hasn't happened yet and I've heard some of the best things out there and no, we're not there yet, okay, number seven, number seven is if you have a The room sounds horrible, has too much echo and reverb to boo me with this.
If your room is square or, even worse, a cube, if your room has air floors and a lot of glass or mirrors and hard surfaces and there are a lot of reflections, it won't sound good, it's just Making better speakers or improving anything won't make that sound good, this won't be forgotten Hi, fight, if you put it real, you know, if you play the piano in that room or a guitar Acoustics, if someone said it would sound terrible. If you have a horrible sounding room, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but that brings us to rule number eight, the cure for horrible sounding rooms is to not listen in that room, well, don't listen to music with don't listen to speakers. in that room get a good pair of headphones, the headphones may sound great, I mean, very, very, what if I have something with the headphones?
They don't sound like speakers, blah, blah, blah, okay, they don't sound like speakers, but it can totally eliminate the room, all the room problems, even good rooms have their problems and a great pair of headphones takes you right to it. the recording. It's a direct connection between what happened and what happened to tape or analog or digital. Remember that it catches you. closer to Courtney's actual sound because you're not hearing the reflections and problems in the room. Rule number nine, size matters, means that big speakers have it all over small speakers or even mid-sized speakers in terms of power dynamics, life-size scale or closer to life.
Small size scale speakers can sound very good. I love small speakers. I really love it. I spent most of my life listening to small speakers, not large ones, but now I'm living with something long term, long before they get clipped. Forte three and now, the size of the Cornwall four is you can't avoid it if you want power, if you want scale dynamics, you need to live with big speakers or a speaker so big that it makes sense for the size of your room, yeah, fit giant speakers in small rooms, that's a disaster, but if you want big sound, if you want big sound, you need big speakers and now we're coming to the end, we've come to rule number 10 and that's just what it's all about is to have fun and enjoy the music and feel some of the abyss again has nothing to do with the price of the system you can do this with a hundred thousand dollar system you can do this with a hundred thousand dollar system and everything else is having the right for you allows you to connect with your music, whatever the type of music, all the types of music that you like, if you can get closer and get more out of the music, you like it, you dance and you can't go to bed. because you still want to play more stuff on your system, you're doing it right hifi, great hifi, a great audio system is about how it makes you feel, that's rule number ten, it lives up to the rule number one, it's It's once again, you know, forget rule number one, rule ten might be the most important and now it's time to say thank you all for watching.
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