tonibird

Wow, a doctor doctor! I'm late to the party and really missed out picking his brain concerning perceived sound, space and time. Great that you folks got to do that. Be well.

Yes. All that including the soon to marketed "Golden Ear Maximizer" system. Too funny. I'm loud listening to the Heresy 1s right now. Any vocals, wood or metal instrument sounds correct and placed well, including nylon string guitar. A snare brush sounds real. I can even easily discern the difference between an electric bass played with fingers or a plectrum. Suitable resonance throughout the range. But that's using my onboard outside ear flaps. Just saying.

I have a set of 1981 Klipsch Heresy 1, with the dual phase plug soldered lugs. I find them wonderful and PWK must've had the same ears as me. But here's the deal: I was standing in front of them, maybe 20ft away. They're 2ft hig and angled maybe 2". Can some of the different user listening experience about some speakers possibly be due our outer ear physical biology? I'm a normal 6ft sized man and with normal sized ears, yet I tilted the the middle of my ears forward using two fingers 20°, and the soundscape totally changed. Pushing the top edge of my ears barely changed anything, and pushing the lower edges forward did nothing. But using two fingers pushing the middle edges forward made a significant difference. Hey, maybe a new device/product to install behind the outer ear folds? It might make more of a difference than lifting the speaker cables off the floor? Try it. What say you?