Component contribution to sound

[RoA]

This is how I would assess the different main links in the chain to contribute to sound in my systems. Feel free to disagree ... which will almost certainly happen!

Source Digital/DAC - 15%

Amplifier - 25%

Speakers - 40%

Room - 15%

Cables - 5%

Ear syringing, grid condition, mental wellbeing etc etc not taken into account. Add/delete at your pleasure ...

 

[ryder]

Speakers 40%

Amp 30%

Source/DAC 20%

Tweaks (cables, stands, isolators etc.) 10%

Apart from ear syringing, the room and speaker placement are not taken into account.

 

[kernow]

Room, speakers
Whatever else

 

[marshanp]

Speakers 45%
Room correction DSP device 25%
Amplifier 15%
Digital sources 14%
cables 1%

My system's sound is defined by its Duevel Venus omnidirectional speakers. The Primare A34.2 power amp is their ideal partner. A DSPeaker Anti-Mode 2.0 couples the resulting sound to the room very well. Other components play their part without letting the rest down.

 

[daytona600]

Software Recording / Mastering - 40%
Room Acoustics /Treatment - 40%
Hifi - 20 %

 

[marshanp]

Software Recording / Mastering - 40%

My system tells me, more than any other I have had, what is in the recording. As far as one can tell, anyway (we have no way of knowing exactly how the recording was intended to sound).

Whether that is a good thing is open to debate... it does wonderful service to 1940s Telefunken orchestral recordings, though.

 

[Zombie]

Room 50 %
Speakers 40 %
Power amp 5 %
Preamp/sources 25 %

 

[sq225917]

Room, speakers and music 95%, electronics 5%

 

[Mr Pig]

Alcohol or drugs: 100%

 

[windhoek]

How big the knob can go.

 

[Mr Pig]

How big the knob can go.

Which is inversely proportional to the amount of alcohol consumed.

 

[Richard Lines]

Good Evening All,

You can't really contribute to a thread where people believe speakers are more important than the source....................... pin removed, grenade rolled......

Regards

Richard

 

[Folkman]

Good Evening All,

You can't really contribute to a thread where people believe speakers are more important than the source....................... pin removed, grenade rolled......

Regards

Richard

Why not ? Would you care to elaborate.

 

[ToTo Man]

Room 50 %
Speakers 40 %
Power amp 5 %
Preamp/sources 25 %

When did the rules of the game change from 100% to 120%?

 

[sq225917]

Good Evening All,

You can't really contribute to a thread where people believe speakers are more important than the source....................... pin removed, grenade rolled......

Regards

Richard

I hope that's a genuine Klyde Built grenade.

I'm of the view that a high performing, system agnostic, digital front end, need not be expensive, so yup most of the system sound is down to speakers and room.

 

[Zombie]

When did the rules of the game change from 100% to 120%?

I have gone over to the subjectivist side now and of course an objectivist must come in and talk math. I have my own math, subjective and I feel it is 120 %.
(It took 2,5 h before someone checked the sum. .)

 

[palacefan]

No cables no sound.

 

[Roog]

Another for room and speakers first.

 

[heidcase music]

Back in the late 60's early 70's there were two schools of thought .. average system plus good speakers .. or good system plus average speakers
The best and cheapest upgrade to any system is to find the optimum position for your speakers in your listening environment

 

[Colin L]

For audio satisfaction…read ASR or similar
Buy the cheapest crap you can find that measures “well”
Never read a mag or listen to any other systems
Result…your system is “superb” and can’t be improved.
Next step is to repeat your mantra on the web ad nauseum.