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?
Can’t stand clipped audio … kids playing iPhones so they can hear them across the room.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
I'm offended by anything made by Apple.
Where's Peter to defend the company name??
Where's Peter to defend the company name??
We are trained not to engage with the proletariat.
We are trained not to engage with the proletariat.
Definitely not the proletariats who work in retail.
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!
