In Reply to: What causes some speakers to be fatiguing? posted by Christopher Witmer on August 27, 2007 at 16:34:39:
I once viewed a Sony high definition video demo, and it was very impressive at first glance, as every single hair on people's heads just seemed to "pop" with impressive clarity. Then I found I was getting a headache, and partly it was due to the fact that I *was* fixating on such small details, and partly because I didn't like the way the equipment was set up: Blacks too black, video too contrasty, with too much added sharpening. I think some high end sound is like that too: Striving not to be "natural" so much as hyper-real, and it gets old after awhile.
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Follow Ups
- Exaggerated micro-detail - 4season 11:20:10 08/28/07 (5)
- Does that mean that too much efficiency can be a bad thing? - Christopher Witmer 04:23:37 08/29/07 (4)
- Equipment warm up and running in... - BTW 08:45:06 08/29/07 (1)
- Warmed up, yes, but not sure about run-in . . . - Christopher Witmer 13:57:39 08/29/07 (0)
- RE: Does that mean that too much efficiency can be a bad thing? - Tom Brennan 05:56:15 08/29/07 (1)
- bass-light - hollowboy 07:33:27 08/29/07 (0)