johnjen
Headphoneus Supremus
One thing that doesn't seem to come up much concerns what I call scalability.
When you go for the TOTL headphones, they are by design and intent supposed to be able to present ALL of the details, be they good, bad, or whatever.
Which means you will hear moar of what is being fed them, than 'less than' TOTL phones.
And you willl hear moar of everything, including any choke points, faults, weaknesses, along with the strengths and impressive changes, in other words the whole enchilada.
Which also means unless/until they are fed the 'correct' diet they will reflect with all of their intended precision and accuracy just exactly what that signal is and it may not be wonderful.
Sometimes you can 'luck out' and your existing gear is able to feed them a signal that allows the music to blossom in it's presentation.
Hearing your music anew is a good way of describing these sorts of results.
Other times you have to work at achieving this degree of 'synergy', regardless of how good the gear is.
But when that 'magic' happens and all of the components scale up together and reach a degree of 'cohesion coherence and coupling' (C3), it truly is or can be compelling.
And in my case it has taken a fair amount of tweaking to dial my system in.
But sometimes a piece of gear just slides right into the system and it immediately makes itself to home and the rewards can be wonderfull !
My new The Rok (Ragnarok) is performing this magic trick as I type this…
But that doesn't mean it can't be MOAR wonderful !!!
JJ
When you go for the TOTL headphones, they are by design and intent supposed to be able to present ALL of the details, be they good, bad, or whatever.
Which means you will hear moar of what is being fed them, than 'less than' TOTL phones.
And you willl hear moar of everything, including any choke points, faults, weaknesses, along with the strengths and impressive changes, in other words the whole enchilada.
Which also means unless/until they are fed the 'correct' diet they will reflect with all of their intended precision and accuracy just exactly what that signal is and it may not be wonderful.
Sometimes you can 'luck out' and your existing gear is able to feed them a signal that allows the music to blossom in it's presentation.
Hearing your music anew is a good way of describing these sorts of results.
Other times you have to work at achieving this degree of 'synergy', regardless of how good the gear is.
But when that 'magic' happens and all of the components scale up together and reach a degree of 'cohesion coherence and coupling' (C3), it truly is or can be compelling.
And in my case it has taken a fair amount of tweaking to dial my system in.
But sometimes a piece of gear just slides right into the system and it immediately makes itself to home and the rewards can be wonderfull !
My new The Rok (Ragnarok) is performing this magic trick as I type this…
But that doesn't mean it can't be MOAR wonderful !!!
JJ