 What offends you more?
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I personally can tolerate crappy fidelity over a lack of soundstage and imaging. If a piece has excellent bass, midrange, treble and dynamics but instruments and singers are collapsed into the left and right speakers, I dislike the piece. I am more tolerant of collapse to the center.
On the other hand, if a piece has bad frequency response and dynamics but excellent images and large stage, I am more apt to add it to my library.
Between lack of fidelity vs. lack of soundstage and imaging, what offends you more when you are listening to music?
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Can’t stand clipped audio … kids playing iPhones so they can hear them across the room.
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Lack of fidelity bothers me more.
That said, since fidelity is lack of distortion, what bothers me most is anything with autotune. Might as well be listening to kazoos.
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If the fidelity is there, I only care about image and stage if I’m really listening. If I’m busy with something you’d even have to crank the distortion quite a bit to get my attention …
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I should also point out that when I’m listening I want my image/stage … I don’t know where my threshold for music fidelity gets crossed but suspect it’s way above my equipment… say over 2%THD. As a guesstimate.
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I'm offended by the separation of audio and video; part of it has to do with my TV/AVR connection via HDMI-CEC, which means I'm not able to listen to music without a display (there is a way, but it's such a hassle). But I can't imagine wanting to listen to music at home without a music video or album art.
2022 was the year I weaned myself off the audio websites. I no longer click on ASR, EAC, or SSN more than once a season; I gave up on Crinacle and Rtings. I still check Pierre Aubert's Spinorama site to keep up with who's wearing their trousers around their ankles.
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I'm offended by anything made by Apple.
Where's Peter to defend the company name??
"Those who preach the myths of audio are ignorant of truth."
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Where's Peter to defend the company name?? We are trained not to engage with the proletariat.
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We are trained not to engage with the proletariat. Definitely not the proletariats who work in retail.
House of the Rising Sone
Out in the mid or far field
Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated
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Where's Peter to defend the company name?? We are trained not to engage with the proletariat. Us working class folk don't understand words longer than 5 letters but this Apple TV seems to understand that I need no less than 7 password entries to add and remove stuff. This Roku TV understands that Apple understands shit all about people who don't want to enter their password in 7 times to get something accomplished. I'm thrilled Peter actually saw that! 
Last edited by chesseroo; 12/28/22 04:25 AM.
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