I have 9 tracks and while listening to my first DJ set using a DJ mix software that turned out not too bad and supports my theory that in the long run the most exciting instrument is two turntables and a mixer inbetween....
In the mix so I am.
The rest is still some MMJ stuff but also created with Audacity and free loop samples. Gimmy bass.
....and here it struck me. It needs really good hi-fi to get the full spectrum of the sound I create. Music and good sound was always important to me dropping even out of jobs and relationships, if the sound of the managers and company played no music in my good ears anymore.
When back from Paris and on my first job I spend an entire net month salary on Hi-Fi, back than a 7.1 Surround System that I used as a 5.1 and was bi-wiring the stereo main speakers.
In Hi-Fi high end it gets quickly really expensive and one can easily spend 10k on a hi-fi system while little improvements of sound cost a very lot. Often rearranging the furniture is smarter than upgrading the system.
In general the speakers are way more important then the amp and a good CD or Blue Ray player is important because it hosts the digital to analog converter that is bases for the amp creating the impulse the speaker turn into sound.
Bi-wiring means that I tweeked with a special setting of the 7.1 amp the 7 amps to use 2 amps for each of the main stereo speakers in my 5 speaker and one subwoofer set up. Basically, the stereo speakers, also supporting this in high-end common set up, use one amp for the lower and another for the higher frequencies.
These days, after my neighbours starting to complain about the down fire subwoofers mightiness, I am most of the time listening on head phones on the computer and my Fioo DAC just gave up recently waiting to be fixed or replaced.
Hi-Fi equipment is rather durable and it does not make any sense to exchange a system that costs about two thousand euros like your pair of trousers. It stays for some time, but gives way lot more pleasure than fashion.
Hi-Fi has different characters and the right mix of amp and speakers is important. I read a lot in the dedicated magazines looking for a high-end entry level surround amplifier. The Hi-Fi mag said about mine it would be more the leather jacket rock guy and loose on classic music being fully featured and good value.
Next to my place was a dedicated Hi-Fi shop specialised in fine equipment. Those shops all have dedicated rooms to listen to different combinations, some offer even to build up a combo at home before buying it and in opposite to the big chain the staff is not underpaid hire and fire, but usually the owners. Lucky me, they had a discount shipment of speakers usually not sold in Germany coming in that they got their hands on so I got to wait another month, but ended up with speakers worth about 30 to 50 percent more than I payed still running about 10 years later. So is the Pioneer amp that got serviced once.
I added a fine fitting Pioneer Blu Ray player and automatic turn table I got on black Friday discount on Amazon doing fine for my Jazz and Blues records. Discogs.com rocks and got the blues...
I never got why anyone would just grap a box in the electronic discounter for anything important like music and playing music.
The room is also important Basically, if you can have a good conversation without an echo from where the speakers are to the main listening position which is for me a cheap replica of the Eames lounge chair and ottoman you'll be fine with the Hi-Fi same positioned.
