Pleasant and unpleasant evenings
Posted by: graphoman on 30 October 2001
All that below is nothing but a cry in the wilderness.
As we all know, good equipment sounds allways better than less good equipment plus any tricks (stands, cable etc.). The aristocracy, possessing 500s, CDSIIs and so on may enjoy good sound forever. We, mortals, have to stick to equipments that sometime sound good and sometime less good. At least that’s what I’ve been aware of in the last 20 years or so, and my ackquaintance seems sharing my findings. Sound quality keep changing with day time, the best hours being at and after 9 p.m. Several reasons may be brought up but up to now no one has been proved scientifically. (No wonder. Contrary to common knowledge, no real parameter of Hi-Fi has ever been proved that seriously.)
Those evening hours, however, are rather different. Some evenings are pleasent, some are not. Reasons, again, are only brought up but never proved. So I can talk about mere impressions. There are the known bio-meteorologycal fronts: the warm one and the cold one. It’s my impression that at warm front the sound quality can be embarrassingly good. The phenomena may not be psychological, rather physiological since it appears not only for the master of the house but, according to my observations, for the friends as well.
I’d be glad if reading someone else’s observations on that very thema. I’d hardly change things but at least I’d know that I’m not that mad.
graphoman
As we all know, good equipment sounds allways better than less good equipment plus any tricks (stands, cable etc.). The aristocracy, possessing 500s, CDSIIs and so on may enjoy good sound forever. We, mortals, have to stick to equipments that sometime sound good and sometime less good. At least that’s what I’ve been aware of in the last 20 years or so, and my ackquaintance seems sharing my findings. Sound quality keep changing with day time, the best hours being at and after 9 p.m. Several reasons may be brought up but up to now no one has been proved scientifically. (No wonder. Contrary to common knowledge, no real parameter of Hi-Fi has ever been proved that seriously.)
Those evening hours, however, are rather different. Some evenings are pleasent, some are not. Reasons, again, are only brought up but never proved. So I can talk about mere impressions. There are the known bio-meteorologycal fronts: the warm one and the cold one. It’s my impression that at warm front the sound quality can be embarrassingly good. The phenomena may not be psychological, rather physiological since it appears not only for the master of the house but, according to my observations, for the friends as well.
I’d be glad if reading someone else’s observations on that very thema. I’d hardly change things but at least I’d know that I’m not that mad.
graphoman