Fas42’s Stereo ‘Magic’

[The Computer Audiophile]

Posted for @shtf because he was blocked by our firewall from doing so. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

22 minutes ago, Racerxnet said:

I am surprised Chris allows him to thread crap all over the site. We all know his take on sound reproduction.

 

1 minute ago, Audiophile Neuroscience said:

 

Only @The Computer Audiophile can answer this. On the whole Frank remains civil even if one dislikes the doctrinaire tone and absurd claims as judged by both objectivists and subjectivists alike.Perhaps Frank should get some sort of prize for alienating both sides of the divide.

 

There is the ignore button.I just don't read his posts except when they appear in others quotes.

 

What annoys me most is the straw man arguments in his replies like "Though, we all know Ferraris, say, are only worthwhile as a vehicle because they cost so much". Sometimes the assertion apples directly to who he is quoting and if seen is difficukt to ignore the mis-characterization lest others assume you imlicitly agree.

 

 

To a certain degree we all have to do our best to get along. If you don't like reading @fas42's posts please put him on your ignore list. Perhaps also, @fas42 can take a look at what others are saying about his posts and determine if all his posts are necessary or if he can tone it down in an effort to improve the community. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

2 hours ago, fas42 said:

What I'm annoyed about is that the $100K systems sound like $10,000, $1,000, even $100

Since you don’t have such a system, I highly recommend not wasting your emotional capital on this. You can safely ignore such systems. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

12 minutes ago, fas42 said:

 

I'm afraid you're wrong... 🤨. What a well sorted $100,000 system does is bring out the music captured at the time, without distracting you with inadequacies of the recording technique; what a poor $100,000 system does is present an assortment of the flaws I mentioned in my previous post.

Huh?

[The Computer Audiophile]

Stop the sophomoric posts people. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

21 minutes ago, STC said:

 So my posts were sophomoric?  one delusional guy took us a ride for over thousands of post when all along he was describing the sound of an average high fidelity equipment and another one with damaged hearing siting with headphones lecturing me about downsampled Dolby. and my posts got deleted. 
 

Settle down. This is audio. It’s a hobby. 
 

Posts from more people than you were removed. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Let’s all take a deep breath and realize that we don’t have to real every post from those we disagree with. It would be great if @fas42 didn’t say the same thing over and over, but the cool part is that nobody has to read it over and over. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

One of the magic threads is enough for now. I’ve merged both of them. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

12 minutes ago, fas42 said:

Noting this post,

 

For me a classic example of how audio people see everything back to front - the rig is the master, and the poor recording is slave to its verdict on whether a recording is worth listening to ... but, the audio world becomes a vastly more interesting place when you turn that on its head - is my system good enough to bring out fully what's on the recording, every time? Turns out that all those "bland" recordings are actually very engaging, and full of Easter eggs of interesting sounds - to "make things worse", it's the "audiophile" tracks that become rather threadbare, because everything was reduced to the minimum to make sure absolutely nothing would offend the listener, 😜.

 

I can’t understand what you mean by this post. Can you explain it for people like me who are a bit slow?

[The Computer Audiophile]

12 minutes ago, fas42 said:

Could I ruin the magic of those headphones? Very, very easy - just insert, say, a high power handling 6 ohm resistor in series with the headphones input

That makes no sense. Why would you do that? Stick a pencil in your tweeter. Bet it sounds bad. 
 

The RAALs sound fabulous with direct drive amps too :~)

 

Can you get a pair to test?

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi Frank, sorry if I was a bit terse in my reply. The global situation is really getting to me :~(

 

Your post is a good one that I’d love to explore further. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

28 minutes ago, fas42 said:

No worries, Chris 😉 .. I'm very intrigued about these RAAL transducers doing such a marvellous job - and started thinking about why it was so ... and laid out my thoughts on the matter. The plus is that if one truly understands what's going on, then that helps with the next stage of evolving audio systems, in general ... 👍.

Thanks for your understanding Frank. 
 

You’re absolutely right in that one must understand what’s going on to evolve. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Now I need to power up the Pass Labs XA160 mono-blocks that are only pure class A :~)

[The Computer Audiophile]

10 minutes ago, fas42 said:

The reaction of David, @Audiophile Neuroscience, here,

is what I've seen repeated over and over again, in person, and in forums ... there is an absolute determination to believe that an assembled, "high end", rig is the arbiter of the quality of what's possible - and the relatively poor performance of just about every ambitious setup I come across is "proof" of what that then results in: very poor value for money in terms of what is extracted, musically, from the vast archive of recordings that exists, out there.

 

Will this ever change? Hmmm ... but, eventually, almost certainly - a new generation of music replay enthusiasts will form, who don't hang onto old ideas - they will be willing to try new approaches, and reap the benefits ... time, the great miracle worker, will perform its magic ... again, 😉.

Some times there’s good reason old ideas hang around. They’re just better. In addition, newer things are often for convenience, smaller size, or just flashier.

 

Not saying that’s the case here, but I know it to be true in other cases.  
 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, fas42 said:

 

Yes, the 'good' old ideas will sustain - an apt example is highly efficient, well engineered horn speakers, born at the very beginning of serious audio; examples 50 years old can easily "outplay" most of the current stuff - in the right hands, 🙂.

I love me some horn speakers. I came close to getting Avantgardes. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

16 minutes ago, fas42 said:

they established that the conventional method of running USB is flawed

They established it to themselves and many people who’ve listened to Unison USB. Not, established it as fact for the industry. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

If people don’t like the thread they can hit the ignore topic button. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

The OP has requested this thread be locked. Following our informal forum rule, I will now lock the thread.