I have two solid prosumer systems at home with many different size speakers trying to cover the spectrum but the more i dig into the hobby the more i feel like I actually have no idea what im doing. I really notice a huge difference when i play through my computer using an audio enhancing equalizer (boom 3D). Definitely night and day difference from just raw dogging the receiver and speakers but im sure itll never actually qualify as hifi. I notice some places around the room sound incredible but moving around the sound changes and im very aware of the physics that make this happen. How else would true hifi feel different? I can play pretty loud music with no destination and my woofers handle the bass well feeling the notes not just a rumble like some other systems ive heard. Anything i try to play without the equalizer becomes super flat and i lose alot of the mids and highs is there gear that could replace this i could add to my receiver.

  • Nerdy1980s@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never subscribed to the ideology of “hi-fi”.

    Being an audiophile is a love of sonic excellence at any budget: wanting to understand what make music sound better.

    There’s no floor or ceiling to cost of the equipment.

    There is a sister reddit called r/budgetaudiophile for people with very low budget and no doubt some cobble a system together from hand-me-downs, yard sales, thrift shops and pawn stores.

    But everybody is welcome in this reddit if you just want to learn and talk about how music gets from the source to coming out of the speaker, and the process that converts that souece to make it sound better by the time it reaches your ears.

    But this reddit is a bit of a safe haven for people with larger budgets. Someone can spend $10,000 or more on a single component like a DAC or turntable or speakers, and not get judged by the size of their wallet.

    But, nobody here cares about the size of anyone’s wallet, but for really low budget systems r/budgetaudiophile is better suited to helping people get their foot into the door of being audiophile when a person has little to no budget at all, and a big desire to listen to better sounding music.