There is a simplier one : when you spend more time on Diyaudio than listening music...
Well, I do BOTH!
Almost always music going on...Have you tried
Audiophile | Baroque
They also have other choices besides Baroque; 320 Kbps so quality is very good considering it is streaming "radio".
Do you have an LP or CD of the recording you wanted me to hear? If it is that good; I don't trust YouTube; I would rather just buy the recording. Sometimes; Presto Classical in England has high quality FLAC downloads; some are CD level quality; some are even higher quality than a standard 44 K sampled CD.
Thanks!
So do I ! I envy the guys that are brained enough to do both and at the same time: RTFM, looking at the scope, talk to aunt Maggy and run the vaccum cleaner !
I believe brand new audiologist from school should know two things or more than the older ones that hadn't open a book or a .pdf ! That's crasy the daily progress in science and hearing knowledge thanks to research
I believe brand new audiologist from school should know two things or more than the older ones that hadn't open a book or a .pdf ! That's crasy the daily progress in science and hearing knowledge thanks to research
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I can't help wondering how many lurkers are afraid of commenting for fear of losing credibility and/or their audio guru status.......you know who you are....
You're kidding right? I have to laugh at such a thought even crossing a mind
Well, if we are here on the forums,
i guess we are either here to share our love of audio, look for ways of improving our audio, simply make friends, support our ego, or who knows what....
But the fear of losing 'audio guru status' makes me laugh loudly, as to me that falls solidly into support of ego.
I made an experiment in my damped listening room with towers that have off set mid-treble drivers on the bafle. when the drivers are inside when the listener faces them : stereo is less wide. Maybe because there are less reflexions or the reflexions of side walls are delayed because of the bafle off set.
When the towers are swapped left & right for the mid-treble being outside towards the side walls : I noticed a bigger soundstage... but the center summing is floating, the voice that is often in the center in front of the listener is less precise... Audio is a nightmare sometimes or at least full of choose your poison decisions, alas...
When the towers are swapped left & right for the mid-treble being outside towards the side walls : I noticed a bigger soundstage... but the center summing is floating, the voice that is often in the center in front of the listener is less precise... Audio is a nightmare sometimes or at least full of choose your poison decisions, alas...
There seem to be quite a few studies, here's another one Optimizing Sound Localization with Hearing Aids
I perceive it that way as well with speakers of that kind. And I am also the "tweeters inside" type. I guess it is not only sidewall reflections that makle a difference but you also chneg the size of the listening triangle between narrow and wide - at least at higher frequencies.
Depending on the recording (and also my mood at the very moment) I sometimes move closer to my speakers and sometimes farther away.
Regards
Charles
I have my mids and tweeters all apart from the woofer "box". This reduces diffraction certainly but also allows adjusting the listening angle individually. In my smaller room; the woofer boxes only have one location that works best; I can move them in and out a little from the side walls and corner but no more than a few inches. I have a super tweeter; some say the narrow angle and small sweet spot bother them; doesn't bother me one bit. I would characterize my high frequency hearing loss starting around 8 KHz is most like a 3rd order low pass; pretty steep!
Often there is a dip caused by Noise-induced hearing loss - Wikipedia usually at about 4k, I have one at 6k, which is around the frequency of my tinnitus. Of course it's quite possible that the tinnitus was masking the test tone, hearing tests aren't very good......in one of the tests I linked to they used eye movement as an indication of direction perception, most people I know don't have eyes in the back of their heads
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Mine is around 8 kHz and very faint and only in the left ear. I only hear it when it is very calm. But I suffer from distortion when I enconter shrill sounds. I will try to find out the exact frequency and notch the range out on the DSP. Maybe this improves the distortion behaviour as well. The uppermost frequency that I can hear is something above 12 kHz - even on that left ear.
Regards
Charles
Regards
Charles
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