*=contrariwise, at a shop in SF when I was actually in the market for an integrated amp for my system, they had the one I wanted to check out but attached to pretty lame (but expensive) modern "hi fi" mini-towers. Like 4" woofers etc. Well I still needed to hear the amp, so when I turned it up, I got a fucking lecture from the tattooed and pierced sales dipshit about how music should be listened to with your head, not your "dinosaur brain" (in your ass).
I told him off and we got the fuck out of there. Hi-fi requires dynamics...any system that the main thing you notice is "smooth" probably sucks*.
This is the kind of thing everyone into music listening should aspire to:
http://noaudiophile.com/FieldTrip-William/
*Example: I auditioned a pair of B&W Nautilus in Phoenix one time. I forget something like $20k for the pair or something like that. Widely considered one of the best speakers ever made, the fags at Stereo Review all-in on it of course. It sounded like the same limp wet tea bags as the rest of their shit, just bigger, limper, and wetter.
*=contrariwise, at a shop in SF when I was actually in the market for an integrated amp for my system, they had the one I wanted to check out but attached to pretty lame (but expensive) modern "hi fi" mini-towers. Like 4" woofers etc. Well I still needed to hear the amp, so when I turned it up, I got a fucking lecture from the tattooed and pierced sales dipshit about how music should be listened to with your head, not your "dinosaur brain" (in your ass).
I told him off and we got the fuck out of there. Hi-fi requires dynamics...any system that the main thing you notice is "smooth" probably sucks.
This is the kind of thing everyone into music listening should aspire to: