It seems that many "audiophiles" are doing part-time job of recording quality evaluation. They have very high requirements for details of audio equipment. They study weak applause, breath and other funny things every day. So they spend tens of thousands of yuan to upgrade the equipment in order to make the sound field bigger and the breathing sound of singing more "three-dimensional", and a large number of expensive moving iron ears with cold sound bottom. That's how sales keep going up.

The result is that a large number of people who used to pay high prices for listening to music have become audiophiles, and they are still studying some minor differences in audio quality / index every day. It's really a sad thing. If we study the musicality, timbre and aesthetic feeling of equipment every day, it's really a partial art. On the premise of overall sound balance, audio equipment The difference of timbre is the most important element that can move the audience most. In fact, it's easy to analyze high-level equipment that can't bear listening, because it's difficult to match well, and the amount of details is too large, so the requirements for all links of the whole system are very high. When there's a short board in any aspect, those large details are easy to become abrupt, so those British brand equipment is very handy, their low-end equipment Almost a lot of them don't emphasize the details and analytical power, but focus on the taste of music. For example, the famous LS3 / 5 Series speakers need to talk about the acoustics. It's estimated that Hui × AI × C × V will kill a few thousand pieces of them when they come out, but LS3 / 5A is good.

In fact, I have a good suggestion for these people. They can choose parts for assembly or buy DIY equipment. As long as the other party guarantees that almost all parts in the shell, even soldering tin, are of high specification (such as military industry). If the unit in the earphone can be named, and the earphone cable is made of pure silver, the details of the equipment must be super many, and the price is very cheap. They can catch up with the Premier League in an instant. In contrast, Linn music fax MBL SPL is "cheating users with high price".

How to improve the ability to evaluate the "musicality" of the equipment? The simple way is to participate in the audio exhibition, listen to the equipment with scary price and heavy weight, and see how people use a very light circuit board to make a balanced and moving voice.

In fact, this truth is really simple. Audio equipment is not mainly a physical problem. More importantly, art and field problems require designers and tuners to have good taste in music art, which is the basis for designing real audio equipment with good musicality.