[fcraven]

Right now my computer is getting some software installed, and is otherwise running real slowly, so I have an opportunity to post.

It's been a few months since I finished my speakers. My N2X towers have had ample time to break in, and they've needed to be dusted a few times.

So many audiophiles forget that the devices we covet, are just tools, they are a means to an end--for the user to listen to "sounds". Today we also throw in the TV screens, but those are just tools too. It's easy for us to get carried away with copper, silver, gold, platinum, and all manner of electronic things, but really it's ultimately about enjoying some tunes, and movies.

So we search, and we buy, and we spend (or wish to spend) lots and lots of money on things that "look" REAL cool. Some of us say "No way am I spending that much money" and then end up here (or someplace like here) where we decide to build it ourselves.

Well, my little project was not only a blast to build but it sounds great. And my wife (ah, our wives are so important because, most sound obsessed persons are heterosexual and male) has found herself being blown away.

Certain songs, in which I would never be interested (most of which are country) all of a sudden, sound good. REAL GOOD. When my wife hears words that she never heard before, when she comments about hearing "intervals" (she doesn't really know that term, but she knows what she hears) between two singers that she never heard before, or fact that there is a duet when she never heard that before-- it's a good thing.

Now she wants me to fix the speakers in her car, which is not really something I want to do, but just wait until I get some sort of computer speaker set up for her, now if only there were some sort of affordable amplifier I could find... OH WAIT...

[Danny Richie]

It's a slippery slope isn't it.

[corndog71]

A great place for car audio is Crutchfield.  Most of the time they can provide a full set of intructions for installation in your particular car as well.

[sl_1800]

My wife claims it all sounds the same.  To her nothing makes any difference at all.  She says her am clock radio and my system sound the same!!!!  Some people just don't want to hear.

[srb]

She says her am clock radio and my system sound the same!!!!

Comparing your system to an FM clock radio I could understand.  But an AM clock radio.......?   
 
Steve

[dvenardos]

They probably do sound the same when you listen to AM radio.

[sl_1800]

They might sound the same on AM but I don't have a tunner in my system!!!!!

[fcraven]

I guess it depends on one's definition of "The Same", or "Better" . AM radio is perfect for news and talk because everything is condensed to the same level, so some might call that better.

In my car, I have a problem with WRR (Dallas' classical station) because my car radio wants to reproduce the dynamic range of the music, and as a result I can't hear the quiet passages, and the loud stuff then gets too loud. So the "better" sound reproduction is worse. The same kind of thing USED to happen on our home system.

I went to a choir concert last night, and to me it was not as good as it could have been because it was amplified. I like to hear choirs in the raw, without the intervention of electronic amplification, but most of the people in the church would call the lack of amplification worse because it would be too "quiet".

And some people like the "pedal note" of most cheep stereo equipment, while I just think of it an annoying hum... unless it really is a pedal note.