Acoustical Voodoo

[Hifi_swlon]

I think it's the amazing human brain constantly adjusting, filtering/compensating and translating/interpreting what we hear. It's adjusting to new input which'll become the new standard at one point. You'd have to "re-learn" te appreciate your "old sound" again, especially if it has flaws that are now no longer there.

That's an interesting thought, but why then do most of us see change as positive when our brain was quite "comfortable" with the old setup. I rarely hear someone comment that a new piece of equipment, cable, upgrade, etc., sounded worse than what they had before ...

Changes I've made over the past years certainly haven't always been positive - far from it. . Although when you read some forums you'd get that impression as there definitely appear to be people for which any change is positive - particularly when they've spent money.

I miss Dirac. I really hope Roon implement room correction soon. Even though to guests etc toggling it on and off didn't seem so obvious, it made a huge improvement to my enjoyment of music.

So what will you do? Swap over to the Trinnov?

Thinking about this adjusting thing it makes sense too. I have grouped zones and when I walk from the main hifi in the lounge, to the kitchen where's it's a pi DAC and a Marshall speaker, I get a very quick sense there's a lot missing but I'm fairly immediately back enjoying the music. Often I like things the Marshall speaker does more and have contemplated quite a few times selling the hifi and simply having those speakers everywhere instead.