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laatsch55

laatsch55

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I put on "God Particle" at a reasonable level and was just gobsmacked. The impactful parts of that Shpongle gem are fast, loud and attention getters, tried to jump outta my skin a couple times.. what I'm hearing is sound quality backed by fucktons of headroom and a Chuck Norris style damping factor. Does a weak damping factor permit smearing, or suppression of recorded artifacts? Things are so fast and tight maybe there's more time to present all the recorded info.....don't know....for sure..... trying to express what is happening is pale in comparison to being here.. I don't know for certain what affects our listening experience, but there's a certain intuition that takes over for me when im in this place where I haven't been before....jaw dropping sonic impacts at low or high volume..... and a desire to just park my dead ass in the big chair and say fuck it for hours at a time....I dont know how much better it can get, but Im not stopping now........

For all the new technology and processes and different ways of interfacing with the world writ large, you would think that music would claim a bigger slice of that impression..... different strokes I guess.....maybe our generation had a relationship to music that could only occur at that time, when a song could lay out your whole philosophy.... I can't help but feel kinda sad that most folks won't be moved by the crescendo on "God Particle" , the one that takes out drivers and makes the hair stand up on your arms and brings a smile of a long gone childhood wrapped in wonder at what music can mean to you.......

Nite fellers, Im glad I lived to hear this system like it is now........damn glad....and damn glad for the righteous company....

MOLON LABE
 
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Translating “specs” into “sound quality “, there are some things I think have value:

Headroom. Lots of headroom. Yes you do need 100wpc in an outhouse.

Slew rate. How fast components recover is important to me. Helps cope with rapid changes. Slow stuff smears and adds distortion.

Damping factor. How well the amp controls the drivers so they move as directed by the music. No over travel and no lagging. Keep amps as close as possible to speakers.
 
laatsch55

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Another observation.
..I've been noticing that I can tell when things are getting close to being pushed to far. Even before clipping the SQ is so good you hear it deteriorating before clip...and that folks is very interesting.
 
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