Purusha said:
BTW, on the subject of HiFi. Someone once showed me an ad for speaker wire which had arrows on it. The idea being that *apparently* the electrons flowed better in that direction or something.
Hmm, although my knowledge of electronics isn't the greatest - i do know that electron flow is different depending on if it's AC (alternating current) or DC (direct current) - AC means the electrons move from positive to negative and back again etc. whereas DC is only in one direction - however DC is only from batteries (an solar cells but they don't really count eh).
Plus, whatever circuit is may be, there is always movement in the other direction within the wire. So how arrows make any feckin' difference (apart from the price) i'll be very interested in.
On topic, i think the difference between home setups and monitors is due to warmth of sound. A hifi system will colour the sound and make it sound nicer. Here's a question, if you were mastering a classical recording would you run the monitors through 2 (hugely expensive) valve amplifiers? no...
But if you listen to that same recording on the valve amplifiers (and tremendous speakers) it sounds absolutely incredible.
Also remember, psytrance isn't reallllly designed for home laid back listening (although probably most of us spend our days listening to it anyway :iwink
, it's designed for dancing to... therefore it's the P.A. that counts for psy and how cleanly/powerfully it plays the vital contituent parts: the kick and bass.
With other music (including pop etc.) it is a different experience, where precision counts less, and warmth counts more - the bass can also be more muddied in these kinds of music for sense of atmosphere or room etc. and sound better.
Anyway, this is only my opinion.
Peace