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To: Cogito who wrote (145)10/25/2011 5:28:46 PM
From: Doren   of 172
 
> It's not a high-end setup

he he. Funny stuff. It's relative. Not a high end set up.

I bought my SAE floor standing speakers from a dumb metal head for $20 (!) at a garage sale. They are not as nice as my blown out Electrovoice ETR-14s from 40 years ago but as long as I don't turn the SAEs up too loud they sound pretty good. The woofers distort. At normal volumes (which means very loud to most people) there is IMHO about a 5% difference from my buddies $3000 speakers.

I've got some old Dahlquist speakers up in my attic. I had them out until I actually hooked up the SAE speakers which to my surprise sounded much nicer.

Some of it is in the ear of the beholder or more accurately the brain. My buddy listens to jazz soloists for nuance mostly, or at least he did before he stopped listening almost all together. He has a fabulous collection.

I listen to structure mostly. I'm aware of less accurate reproduction when the bass mushes out or unclear super upper range stuff but I'm not really listening for clarity of that so much as separation and spatial. My listening interests are decidedly cheaper since string quartets, and jazz quartets can be quite pricey, while piano concertos, symphonies and most modern rock or electronic recordings are relatively cheap.

In fact I make music and rather than have a surround sound system I'd rather have a four speaker system with speakers at all four corners in front of me. Everyone thinks stereo as left and right but it seems to me UP and DOWN is really more important for the way we as humans discern musical sound. If I were performing MUSIC on a stage I'd love to be able to locate sounds more accurately in front of my audience.

Of course in a movie situation you would want to hear the train behind you as it passes.
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