If you need help with your HIFI system or general advice, then send me a mail to: realhifihelp@gmail.com (my name is Larry) For free help, then look at my videos and comments. Then there are several 1000’s of hours put into these videos for the entire community. (circa 450 videos)
hi there, what is your cup of tea?.what is your ideal system and what is your current system. i would highly appreciate if you can do a video for the same.
Your observations on the Wilson sound are spot on with my experience. I have noticed that people are either completely floored by the Wilson sound (find it the absolute best sound ever), or find it fascinating but disturbing at the same time. For a typical audio club meeting of ours, I would say from the 20 listeners at least 12 are ecstatic, 5 reserved but apparently taken in, and 3 are fuming or outraged. I have known our audio circle for a long time, and I can tell that the people who have issues with the Wilson sound are all golden ears. People with average / no training, limited (or just normal) hearing will always love the Wilson sound unreservedly. (I think Dave Wilson did a fine job with his speakers, I can't name any other speaker brand that has such devoted followers). And indeed, their big speakers do a pretty stunning job with detail level / resolution. To me the Chronosonic sounds as the perfect PA speaker: gives me the feel that I at an amplified concert, in a large venue, and I listen to it with the best amplification possible. It provides an experience that has higher detail level and clarity than a real event would. It does excel at this feat, unreservedly top class, when used for this purpose. However, as you mention, it fails at intimacy, and tonal correctness. Try to listen to a solo piano or violin. It will have super high detail level, but will sound nothing like a real piano or a violin. Also, after I switched from spectator mode to analytical mode during a listening session, I could easily pick that each driver had a different tone, and they were thrown in phase / out of phase. Actually, I found the experience thoroughly amusing, listening to them is a tour de force of golden ear test, identifying the phase and coloration of each driver. (The PhD thesis of golden ears : ) I could easily pick out which sounds come from which driver, and once I calibrated my ears to the speakers, I could not unhear it, and the perfect illusion fell apart to a mix coming from 8 different speakers. I have a video on my baby channel (very new) on the breakdown of the Wilson sound, how they achieve what they do and why it works. I don't want to post the link here, would be very bad practice to intrude. It's one of my recent videos easy to find. I will soon do a breakdown of the AN-E sound as well ; ).
I am done with those brands, not too special. Airtight: interesting but irrelevant because it's a bit analytical and boring and way too expensive. Kondo is good, just way too expensive, and not as good as it used to be.
Yes I demoed Sasha and Sabrina. They sound nice no bright sound but lacking emotion and lower models lack treble detail. Yes they have great bass. I think they intentionally roll off so it won't be bright. Heard it on Simaudio monos.
For me the very lower models of Mcintosh is a very normal HIFI sound. But models from around 6900 and higher are for me a lot better. I used it more as a point to say that the Crazy good gear as Nagra and Spectral and such at the top sounds best with it. And still stuff like the more normal lower end Mcintosh gear also fits it, especially because of the similar religion type of sound just like MIT cables. But yeah that is just me, that has Audio Note gear. Then lower Mcintosh models is for me more of the normal stuff on the market. But yeah I get what you mean.
@@RealHIFIHelp well i guess you're right. in fact almost all high-end Audios have entry Levels (mainly to attract bigger audience).. yet again. everything has it's price . if you want more, you gotta pay more. Cheers
Very accurate and very typical of american high-end in general. They like the big and bold sound with lots of separation (exaggerated separation) and they are afraid of showing weakness. When you play "money for nothing" in the demo room their system has to sound the biggest and boldest and with the blackest black, that often seems to be their goal. But to capture the intimacy and beauty of an acoustic female solo performance? Lots of other brands from France, UK, Japan, Germany etc do that better.
If you need help with your HIFI system or general advice, then send me a mail to: realhifihelp@gmail.com (my name is Larry)
For free help, then look at my videos and comments. Then there are several 1000’s of hours put into these videos for the entire community. (circa 450 videos)
hi there, what is your cup of tea?.what is your ideal system and what is your current system. i would highly appreciate if you can do a video for the same.
Soon I will do that...
Your observations on the Wilson sound are spot on with my experience. I have noticed that people are either completely floored by the Wilson sound (find it the absolute best sound ever), or find it fascinating but disturbing at the same time. For a typical audio club meeting of ours, I would say from the 20 listeners at least 12 are ecstatic, 5 reserved but apparently taken in, and 3 are fuming or outraged. I have known our audio circle for a long time, and I can tell that the people who have issues with the Wilson sound are all golden ears. People with average / no training, limited (or just normal) hearing will always love the Wilson sound unreservedly. (I think Dave Wilson did a fine job with his speakers, I can't name any other speaker brand that has such devoted followers). And indeed, their big speakers do a pretty stunning job with detail level / resolution. To me the Chronosonic sounds as the perfect PA speaker: gives me the feel that I at an amplified concert, in a large venue, and I listen to it with the best amplification possible. It provides an experience that has higher detail level and clarity than a real event would. It does excel at this feat, unreservedly top class, when used for this purpose. However, as you mention, it fails at intimacy, and tonal correctness. Try to listen to a solo piano or violin. It will have super high detail level, but will sound nothing like a real piano or a violin. Also, after I switched from spectator mode to analytical mode during a listening session, I could easily pick that each driver had a different tone, and they were thrown in phase / out of phase. Actually, I found the experience thoroughly amusing, listening to them is a tour de force of golden ear test, identifying the phase and coloration of each driver. (The PhD thesis of golden ears : ) I could easily pick out which sounds come from which driver, and once I calibrated my ears to the speakers, I could not unhear it, and the perfect illusion fell apart to a mix coming from 8 different speakers. I have a video on my baby channel (very new) on the breakdown of the Wilson sound, how they achieve what they do and why it works. I don't want to post the link here, would be very bad practice to intrude. It's one of my recent videos easy to find. I will soon do a breakdown of the AN-E sound as well ; ).
I agree. Good story, you nailed it.
Pls cover some Japanese tube gear like shindo, Airtight , Useugui ,Leben Kondo , Sun Audio,
I am done with those brands, not too special.
Airtight: interesting but irrelevant because it's a bit analytical and boring and way too expensive.
Kondo is good, just way too expensive, and not as good as it used to be.
Yes I demoed Sasha and Sabrina. They sound nice no bright sound but lacking emotion and lower models lack treble detail. Yes they have great bass. I think they intentionally roll off so it won't be bright. Heard it on Simaudio monos.
sure Spectral makes some great Amps. but i find it strange when you classified McIntosh as a "Normal" Hi Fi gear ?!.
For me the very lower models of Mcintosh is a very normal HIFI sound.
But models from around 6900 and higher are for me a lot better.
I used it more as a point to say that the Crazy good gear as Nagra and Spectral and such at the top sounds best with it. And still stuff like the more normal lower end Mcintosh gear also fits it, especially because of the similar religion type of sound just like MIT cables.
But yeah that is just me, that has Audio Note gear. Then lower Mcintosh models is for me more of the normal stuff on the market.
But yeah I get what you mean.
@@RealHIFIHelp well i guess you're right. in fact almost all high-end Audios have entry Levels (mainly to attract bigger audience).. yet again. everything has it's price . if you want more, you gotta pay more. Cheers
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Very accurate and very typical of american high-end in general. They like the big and bold sound with lots of separation (exaggerated separation) and they are afraid of showing weakness. When you play "money for nothing" in the demo room their system has to sound the biggest and boldest and with the blackest black, that often seems to be their goal. But to capture the intimacy and beauty of an acoustic female solo performance? Lots of other brands from France, UK, Japan, Germany etc do that better.
Pretty much empty words.