3-D at my desk
Vienna Acoustics Waltz Grand Bookshelf Speakers It’s really amazing to me every time I do something that lowers the noise floor of my system and lets more of the music through. I describe it precisely that way after years of experience with this. I’ve moved on from wondering what the heck it takes to get “the magic” going and realized that once the basics like frequency response and time domain are handled with room treatment and speaker placement, the job becomes about eliminating noise at all costs. Choice in gear, choice in speakers, choice in cables, routing of cables, and, oh my goodness — conditioning or regenerating the power — all of these things serve to lower noise and remove distortions in a system. It’s in those distortions that the realism-robbing noise goblins wreak their havoc. You may not notice the noise reduction tweaks on lesser recordings, but excellent productions show off that magic immediately. With a great recording played on a great system, you