Yes you are right Oldric, it may have been a mistake to sell the EAR's, dump a 2,500 disc vinyl collection . . . but my life at the time was complicated by the HiFi industry . . . a personal story.
I have no wish to go back to the hurt and pain!!! of those days. I have learned to be laid back, have no wist to listen to the shuffling feet of the flautist, or coughing in the back row of the audience, things not heard at a live performance. I believe 'Music' can come from a simple low cost system like I set up for my father 20 years ago, rotel amp, Rega turntable, cant remember what speakers? I want musical simplicity, I dont want to listen to the equipment.
Went into a high street store on Saturday, the fist time I have gon to the HiFi section of any shop since 1995. The salesman demonstrated a simple budget system, in a room set up for home cinema and every day HiFi, loads of speakers!!! Matt, the salesman, was good on the technical side, he new all the knobs and buttons to push. He was great, understanding what I wanted, giving me the freedom to choose, first I selected, then I tweaked and moved stuff, made a few critical adjustments and blew his mind with a proper sound stage, depth, rhythm and pace in the performance, even got a half tuneful base response from a pair of monitor audio shoe boxes. I surprised my self, nothing has changed, the 'old ways' still work.
However, there is new techie stuff, there is still expensive stuff, some names have changed . . . transistorised sound has improved . . . dramatically IMHO? I remember it was going that way when I stopped in 95 . . . manufacturers were learning, a flat response produced a great 'sound wave', but a very flat, uninteresting sound at the speakers to go with it. Another description is 'linear response' we dont hear in a linear fashion, we like nonlinear and, distorted sound is all around us, our brains are used to coping with it. Saturday is the 2nd test day, with the Rogers and their dedicated stands? along with other options that Matt will make available from the shop stock. Essential I want; simple, low cost 'involving music', I wont be listening to 'HiFi'!
By the way Oldric, what is DAC?
My aim is to build a new selected music collection, cherry pick from the down loads available. So often we used to buy albums for one or two tracks, the rest . . . make weights! Not every time, classics like 'Dark Side of the Moon', Jenifer Warnes; 'Famous Blue Raincoat', stunning performances, pretty good on CD to, I have the gold disk issue of Dark Side, and the German issue or Famous Blue Raincoat, brilliant, listen to Jimmy Nails, 'Big River', amazingly engineered track! And of course, Allegri Miserere, a track the 35a's were made for . . . I have heard the confines of the listening room disappear with my old vinyl/valve system when I played Miserere . . . memories.
CJSF