twowheelsgood said:
Of course if you have a record deck movement might make a difference...If you seriously think it makes a difference to electrons then there is no hope for you. The biggest issue you will have is likely (after your own hearing) to be the sonics in your listening room. Hard reflective surfaces and alcoves are killers for sound. The modern trend for laminate floors means virtually any hi-fi is guaranteed to sound terrible in such rooms.
Most of your post is complete rubbish!
In the early days of Hi-Fi many engineers believed that the type of amplifier used was unimportant. A correctly designed valve or solid state amplifier would sound exactly the same because they looked the same on paper. Of course they were wrong because they were trusting their limited technical knowledge rather than their ears.
You may not understand how a support could make a difference to the performance of an electronic device like an amplifier or CD player but that's a gap in your knowledge, it doesn't alter the facts. To be fair I don't think anyone really does fully understand it, even those who design them. Years ago I wrote to a designer in the Hi-Fi industry explaining how I thought Mana worked. He passed my theory on to a friend of his who is a physicist for an F1 team and he thought it was probably correct, but he didn't know. You're just guessing but the point is that it demonstrably does work.
You are right that there is not much you can do about the local grid but improving or removing whatever electrical connections you do have access to can help. I have a separate mains spur for the hi-Fi, it does help. The mains is sh**e, if you look at on an oscilloscope it's hardly recognisable! However, good Hi-Fi seems to deal with it and more importantly is designed to work correctly with it. I've heard devices that improve the mains signal and actually make the sound of the system worse!
Your hearing does tail off with age, mainly the very high frequencies, but it's all relative. Ok, so you can't hear to 20'000hz any more but over all you've not lost much in the way of resolution at all, unless you are suffering some kind of hearing disability. You can still hear the difference between a good Hi-Fi and a transistor radio just fine.
Hard surfaces can be a problem but again, it's relative. Never heard a jazz band sound great in a club with brick walls and wooden floor? I have. Gosh, how do they do that?
I would say Mr Pig, putting those speakers that distance apart and that close to a wall would render several thousands worth of anything irrelevant.
You'd be talking out of ignorance again then wouldn't you? The monitors you might have seen at the BBC; Harbeths, Spendor, Chartwells etc, were designed to work in free space. Nothing wrong with that, in fact my sister bought a pair of Harbeth Compact 7s on my recommendation, but my speakers aren't like that. All of Linn's classic speakers are designed to work correctly in exactly the position you see them in the picture. After twenty years of using them I can confirm that Linn are right! If they worked better out in the room they'd
be out in the room.
Move your head 1m each way and the bass disappears and re-appears.
And you're giving advice to me! Would you like me to come round and fix your Hi-Fi for you?