07-Aug-2014, 15:40
(07-Aug-2014, 15:28)Mikeeo Wrote: Plus when my orchestra friends visiting they will tell me this or that about the system, and they are pretty direct and skilled noticing if I changed something from the time before.
I am very surprised by this. My wife is a musician by profession and we therefore have lots of friends who are musicians. None of them are interested by hifi and whilst some are impressed by what can be done, now they have heard my system, none feel any of the things I have tried to show make any difference at all!
We have a Steinway Model B in our music room and host Associated Board examinations there. All the musicians show a combination of amazement and shock by the hifi in my room. Only one has been really interested and then extremely impressed by the sound quality, I can reproduce the Steinway fairly convincingly in here (with £15 speaker cables), but all think it an absurd waste of money and space.
Also aural memory is very short. About 15 minutes IIRC. So I take any change which takes longer than 15 minutes to complete, level matched, as an indeterminate test.
I think our friends humour us for our eccentric pastime. Those that don't just look askance ;-)
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