"...until you have a once-in-a-lifetime experience listening to a really great system, you won't know what you're missing from your favourite music. not just technical qualities like detail or extension, but emotion, texture, and meaning. hi-fi is a great real-world example of plato's cave, because once you've heard what you're missing... you can't unhear it."
~ @matthewb
I'm a huge music nerd and a low-key audiogeek. You kind of have to become an audiogeek if you're into drone and dark ambient music (my favorite genres), because most of it is so subtle.
I've got a lifetime subscription to the Roon software (use it every day and love it!) and I've spent a fair amount of time reading about home audio in the context of room design: loudspeakers, subwoofers, optimizing listening positions, vibroacoustics, tactile transducers, acoustic treatments, etc.
This fantastic thread is the kind of niche content I hope to see more of on FC. I learned about cardioid dispersion, something I'd never heard of before. 1 reply
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