Day to Day Listening....

[SWL]

For the last few years since I started this hobby, my system would sound slightly different from day to day. I mean, I'd come home from work, turn on the stereo (always the first thing I do when I walk through the door), and it would sound overwhelmed with bass.....or the opposite.......too much treble, or the opposite. Too much of this, not enough of that.

Well, after a few years of upgradeitis, experimenting with placement and experimenting with room treatments.........I think I finally got it right. []

Sometimes from day to day it will sound slightly different......but nothing major. Probably just the adjustment from being outside all day. I think tweaking and going by other peoples comments/suggestions was making me crazy trying to get it "just right". Ain't gonna happen.....but I'm very happy with what I ended up with.

I've realized that mediocre equipment with proper placement in a proper room (acoustically) is better than higher end gear in a room that is ignored.....as far as placement and room acoustics go.

For discussion sake, does anyone else's stereo sound slightly different from day to day? Am I going nuts? Are you guys nuts? Are we all going nuts with this hobby?

Gotta go, I think I need to move my speaker over an inch and a half......so it will sound better......ya know? []

[tommyboy]

I never really thought about it, but I guess ya, mine too sounds a little different from day to day. Especially the bass. I messed around with my subs last night, thought I was happy with it, but today when I came home, it was a little too much bass. And when I watch movies, i'm CONSTANTLY changing my levels. it drives my gf nuts!

[tommyboy]

Now that I mentioned it, does anyone else constantly change their levels? r,c,l,rs, ls?

[wuzzzer]

For me its integrating all my speakers to sound their best together. I don't physically move things around too much but I do adjust crossover settings and output settings a lot, especially since getting the Hsu MBM-12.

[JJkizak]

Yes, it is because of temperature, humidity, and pressure. Your speakers are moving a viscous medium (air) and when the properties of that medium change the sound performance will change. Sometimes the bass has more punch, sometimes the highs. I use the process of "overwhelmation" to bypass all of this.

JJK

[soundbound]

Mine sounds different from day to day.

[dtel]

" Are you guys nuts? "

Yes.........But i never claimed to be normal so it's OK! [:S]

Yes it does sound different from day to day.

[Groomlakearea51]

Psychoacoustics rule!!! LOL!!!

But yes, the exact same song on the exact same equipment, exact same spl, etc just sounds different on some days. Stress levels? Am I tired? Am I concentrating on something else? Humidity and temperature affects things, but it also affects the final component of the system.... the listener. In some ways, we too are a "reactive network".

[SWL]

I'm looking for a preamp with a psycoacoustics switch.

That might be helpful......or not.[]

[Zen Traveler]

Now that I mentioned it, does anyone else constantly change their levels? r,c,l,rs, ls?

No. After calibration I leave those settings unless there is a change in speaker placement or room dynamics.

[Zen Traveler]

I guess for me it sounds the same and I don't notice any day-to-day differences unless I have a headache, which doesn't happen too often. I don't change my settings unless it's Disk specific.

For the last ten years I have really come to appreciate Multichannel sound in both Music and Movies and spend at least 3 to 4 hours a day enjoying my Klipsch Home Theaters. When I workout in the afternoons I don't do much critical listening but appreciate the motivation that my Klipsch Legend systems pounds out...In the evening, to sometimes late at night, I sit amazed in my main Library Home Theater (listed below) at how sublime Multi-channel music sounds--For well made Movies it's nothing short of being in middle of the action.

I admit there is alot of fun in tweaking a system but it's nirvana once you get it right. [8][~][ip]

[Groomlakearea51]

I admit there is alot of fun in tweaking a system but it's nirvana once you get it right.

Well put!![Y]

[Don Richard]

My system sounds better in the morning. Probably hearing threshold shift or something like that.

[Coytee]

I use the process of "overwhelmation" to bypass all of this

I like the way you think