The sound caracter of a component becomes more audible the less components are in the signal path ....following this philosophy as mentionned by our friend Albert : " keep it as simple as possible but not to simple ! " That's my guideline ................and it works for me .
He is the guy behind SW1X Audio design. I have bought 3 products from this guy. His philosophy and his execution of that philosophy can be heard in his products. If you can source a component for a demo I’d recommend you do it. There is a lot of nonsense out there. He speaks a lot of sense.
Totaly agree and only few manufacturers follow this way of designing and voicing at a ......PRICE ! So learn to build yourself with your budget available ......over years of experiencing and learning ( often of your misstakes ) , when magic happens you will recognize it instantly ,...... time to enjoy your creation !
The key to a great sounding music system is - - A.I. I predict that between Mark Levinson's ( Danial Hertz Audio ) C-Wave technology, and A.I. we will be able to create the perfect audio playback system, as well as audio recording systems. I feel the audio systems of the future can be personally configured to match our hearing exactly. We all hear things differently because we all have imperfections in our hearing capabilities. We all hear different frequencies differently in amplitude, and some frequencies some of us can't even hear. Imagine having a custom audio rig that was calibrated to your hearing capabilities. This is where A.I. comes in. A.I. can figure all this out over time as A.I. matures. I think it is fascinating for what the future holds for A.I. in helping create audio equipment. No one can really say " This is the best sounding audio system for everyone". But, they can say " this is the best sounding audio system I have ever heard ".
I've been tuning a system I built around a set of speakers I built, and just with the speakers I have multiple tweeter crossover filters using different construction/materials capacitors and I also have a copper wiring harness and a silver coated copper wire wiring harness. It is remarkable the different sound via these few different parts. Last night I brought back the silver wire harness to use with the copper foil/oil/paper capacitor and it really harmonized well and illustrated how there was just too much copper influence and how the silver balanced it all out. It's audio Alchemy and shaping the sound is like being a Chef creating a great meal. Cheers.
i also have been long down the rabbithole myself with my own Nos tube dac kits, & can truly sign under that to much of one good ingredient/brand can imprint to much of itself & can screw the whole balance now after about 3-4 years total of trials & errors & think i have find a balance i could live with, it all started as a standard kit then full Audio Note everything i was obsessed & expected the best was the best everywhere, the sound was too tilted in one direction & was musically supressed, i took it all apart a bit upset & frustrated ,& started with blank paper, it from then ended up with a hybrid between Nos & more modern parts troughout, & also where it all starts got beefed up with the heart a good oversized solid power trans & chokes :-) to try to relieve an autentic or at least believeable reproducion with realistic colour palette rather than ultra hd fake view, only the ones that was in the studio at the time of the recording take place could actually tell, all other is just a different point of view of the reproduction & nothing wrong about it inspiring isnt it :-) enjoy the music Sincerely Ivan
"3-4 years total of trials & errors" - this is per 1 product- you can count how many we have and how long and costly the R&D is. Unfortunately there are not many people who can appreciate the effort and cost it takes to make something to sound extraordinary. most uninformed folks complain about the prices of our products- if they only knew the costs of the developmental process and especially the real costs of harmonic matching!
@@sw1xaudiodesign exactly this 3-4 years was in genereral used on just one design that i refined for the wanted end result of the balancing act of things & make sure to get the best out of the choosen design :-) i know how time consuming it is, something extra ordinary dosent come with of the shelf class D modules to take a bad example, with such niche products that also are made of individually models to meet up with broader customer spectrum it is also very demanding & time consuming, so all the time of hardwiring, the adapting & implementing the parts to work as a whole, circuit designs & so on, i think only the Diy community can fully appreciate & understand this kind of design & approach, therefore it is sad it all have come to the cost out of reach for the normal man in the street, its sad because it should be more available for normal peoples to get to know this level of audio exist, but as i said i understand also all comes to an cost when all sums up in the time consuming effort with such type of concepts of audio all handmade & no stones left unturned, Sincerely Ivan
@@erikbarsingerhorn4485 There is no sound system on Earth that can reproduce the original event, "Perfectly". And no recording technology to capture the original event, "Perfectly". Our systems reproduce a facsimile. Sometimes very good, but compared to a live acoustical event? Nope, not even close.
@@scottwolf8633 Quote ''There is no sound system on Earth that can reproduce the original event, "Perfectly".'' It is what the producer and sound engineer make of it in the studio or on stage. And at home we try to get as close as possible to the original recording analog or digital. Exactly what SW1X says. A bad instrument will never sound better on an expensive system. A bad installation can make a good recording worse. Whats perfect?
@@erikbarsingerhorn4485 No such phenomenon as perfect. As in studio monitors that the producer/Engineer employ. Have you noticed the quality of studio monitors?
That's it. From now on, I'm sticking with the cheapest audio equipment. I'm done with the overpriced stuff companies insist is 'superior.' After all, when it comes to sound, it's all just a matter of subjective ear candy.
Yeah, no. The engineers don't have a good system in mind when they make the recording, they choose to make it sound reasonable on all playback mediums including cheap IEMs and terrible phone DACs. My best sounding system had multiple high-end subwoofers and I could add bass which was almost literally nonexistent in the original recording.
This is great video! Thank you!
❤ exactly what I think ❤
The sound caracter of a component becomes more audible the less components are in the signal path ....following this philosophy as mentionned by our friend Albert : " keep it as simple as possible but not to simple ! "
That's my guideline ................and it works for me .
Who is this guuy? I love the way he's been explaining in all the videos. No fluff, straight to the point and articulate.
He is the guy behind SW1X Audio design. I have bought 3 products from this guy. His philosophy and his execution of that philosophy can be heard in his products. If you can source a component for a demo I’d recommend you do it. There is a lot of nonsense out there. He speaks a lot of sense.
Totaly agree and only few manufacturers follow this way of designing and voicing at a ......PRICE ! So learn to build yourself with your budget available ......over years of experiencing and learning ( often of your misstakes ) , when magic happens you will recognize it instantly ,...... time to enjoy your creation !
The key to a great sounding music system is - - A.I. I predict that between Mark Levinson's ( Danial Hertz Audio ) C-Wave technology, and A.I. we will be able to create the perfect audio playback system, as well as audio recording systems. I feel the audio systems of the future can be personally configured to match our hearing exactly. We all hear things differently because we all have imperfections in our hearing capabilities. We all hear different frequencies differently in amplitude, and some frequencies some of us can't even hear. Imagine having a custom audio rig that was calibrated to your hearing capabilities. This is where A.I. comes in. A.I. can figure all this out over time as A.I. matures. I think it is fascinating for what the future holds for A.I. in helping create audio equipment. No one can really say " This is the best sounding audio system for everyone". But, they can say " this is the best sounding audio system I have ever heard ".
You sir, are correct. As hifi prices skyrocket, it’s how much enjoyment for the money that’s important, NOT the price/component costs ✌🏼
I've been tuning a system I built around a set of speakers I built, and just with the speakers I have multiple tweeter crossover filters using different construction/materials capacitors and I also have a copper wiring harness and a silver coated copper wire wiring harness. It is remarkable the different sound via these few different parts. Last night I brought back the silver wire harness to use with the copper foil/oil/paper capacitor and it really harmonized well and illustrated how there was just too much copper influence and how the silver balanced it all out. It's audio Alchemy and shaping the sound is like being a Chef creating a great meal. Cheers.
Simply a brilliant explanation!
Congrats!
i also have been long down the rabbithole myself with my own Nos tube dac kits, & can truly sign under that to much of one good ingredient/brand can imprint to much of itself & can screw the whole balance now after about 3-4 years total of trials & errors & think i have find a balance i could live with, it all started as a standard kit then full Audio Note everything i was obsessed & expected the best was the best everywhere, the sound was too tilted in one direction & was musically supressed, i took it all apart a bit upset & frustrated ,& started with blank paper, it from then ended up with a hybrid between Nos & more modern parts troughout, & also where it all starts got beefed up with the heart a good oversized solid power trans & chokes :-) to try to relieve an autentic or at least believeable reproducion with realistic colour palette rather than ultra hd fake view, only the ones that was in the studio at the time of the recording take place could actually tell, all other is just a different point of view of the reproduction & nothing wrong about it inspiring isnt it :-) enjoy the music Sincerely Ivan
"3-4 years total of trials & errors" - this is per 1 product- you can count how many we have and how long and costly the R&D is. Unfortunately there are not many people who can appreciate the effort and cost it takes to make something to sound extraordinary. most uninformed folks complain about the prices of our products- if they only knew the costs of the developmental process and especially the real costs of harmonic matching!
@@sw1xaudiodesign exactly this 3-4 years was in genereral used on just one design that i refined for the wanted end result of the balancing act of things & make sure to get the best out of the choosen design :-) i know how time consuming it is, something extra ordinary dosent come with of the shelf class D modules to take a bad example, with such niche products that also are made of individually models to meet up with broader customer spectrum it is also very demanding & time consuming, so all the time of hardwiring, the adapting & implementing the parts to work as a whole, circuit designs & so on, i think only the Diy community can fully appreciate & understand this kind of design & approach, therefore it is sad it all have come to the cost out of reach for the normal man in the street, its sad because it should be more available for normal peoples to get to know this level of audio exist, but as i said i understand also all comes to an cost when all sums up in the time consuming effort with such type of concepts of audio all handmade & no stones left unturned, Sincerely Ivan
Chasing audio perfection is a fool's errand.
I'ts not, perfect audio at home should sound as i'ts recording. Not better! And listen!! to the explanation!
@@erikbarsingerhorn4485 There is no sound system on Earth that can reproduce the original event, "Perfectly". And no recording technology to capture the original event, "Perfectly". Our systems reproduce a facsimile. Sometimes very good, but compared to a live acoustical event? Nope, not even close.
@@scottwolf8633 Quote ''There is no sound system on Earth that can reproduce the original event, "Perfectly".'' It is what the producer and sound engineer make of it in the studio or on stage. And at home we try to get as close as possible to the original recording analog or digital. Exactly what SW1X says. A bad instrument will never sound better on an expensive system. A bad installation can make a good recording worse. Whats perfect?
@@erikbarsingerhorn4485 No such phenomenon as perfect. As in studio monitors that the producer/Engineer employ. Have you noticed the quality of studio monitors?
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That's it. From now on, I'm sticking with the cheapest audio equipment. I'm done with the overpriced stuff companies insist is 'superior.' After all, when it comes to sound, it's all just a matter of subjective ear candy.
Where have all the missing comments gone?
Addendum: Ah, they are back!
Yeah, no. The engineers don't have a good system in mind when they make the recording, they choose to make it sound reasonable on all playback mediums including cheap IEMs and terrible phone DACs. My best sounding system had multiple high-end subwoofers and I could add bass which was almost literally nonexistent in the original recording.