Even when you get close to the level of separation Slowy talks about, often you're just getting to listen to, in infinite detail, just how badly your favourite music is recorded, mixed and mastered.robthemac wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 1:47 pmI've spent enough of my life arguing with audiophiles about the inability for people to distinguish between most components.clubhouse wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 12:55 pmSerious gimp cave…nice, man! Sounds a little like Torquemada meets Régine Zylberberg and Adam West-Batman…we should talk, sounds like a party to me
Back in the day, a story was told (probably apocryphal) by an older and really good audio engineer disparaging ‘audiophiles’…
IIRC, a seminar was organised by a reputable hi-fi magazine for some critics, journo and respected ‘golden ears’ cats. One of the items, which was the point of the experiment (it was a all a set-up to test a hypothesis), involved sitting the gathered in a small, acoustically tuned auditorium acknowledged for its ‘musicality’, in front of a set of very high end stereo speakers with a curtain behind them where the rest of the hi-fi system was kept.
The audience was assured that every controllable variable had been taken care of to insure that all the listeners were subjected to the same listening experience and they were asked to listen critically to a song track that was then played for them. They were asked to note their observations of the listening experience.
After some deliberate bashing and crashing about with some muttering and serious talk behind the curtain, the guinea pigs were then asked to listen critically to the same track again and note any difference from the previous experience they perceived.
The results were collated. All listeners noted differences, and there was. All were wrong…eloquently describing the phase inconsistencies causing eq shifts, variances in DAC, subtle changes in the mastering compression, blah, blah…everyone missed that the tracks were exactly the same except that the first was played back in stereo and the second in mono…
Better to spend money on the gimp-related items rather than DACs and cables etc.
"Can you hear just how incredibly sharp the clipping sounds on this brickwalled album? You won't get that level of detail with cheaper speaker floor spikes" etc.