Speakers
Without wanting to bore you about my living situation, I found myself with the need to purchase some Hi Fi equipment. I went with a Fosi Audio v3 amp and a Fosi Audio P3 pre-amp and a pair of Elac Debut B6.2 bookshelf speakers (spoiler, they’re too big for a bookshelf).
They have sounded pretty good to me, and I have a reasonable history with audio so I think they’re very much there or thereabouts.
However, on the RSS feed came up a post from Tim Bray’s blog about his adventures in purchasing new speakers in which he described his test music. Oooh, I though, I should have a listen and see how it stacks up.
I started with his recommendation of Identikit by Radiohead, noting the artificality (is that a word?) of the sound stage. I fired it up this evening, on the above, and I had a bit of a religious moment. The soundstage was perfect. The drums were bang in the centre, and all the jiggery pokery was flying around where it should be.
Long story short I have somehow, almost by accident and without any opportunity to audition, put together a banging little setup. I was quite happy with it, but I hadn’t really put it to the test with any form of critical listening so I am quite chuffed for someone else’s test piece to really shine.