Over the many years I have been in this game, both selling and as an enthusiast metting others and going to shows and bake offs, the realisation I have is, One man's musical nirvana is another man's earache.
As such it is wrong to "evaluate" someone else's system as it has been put together to please their ears and not anyone else. However visiting others and listening to their systems will allow us to determine what we like or do not and so is a helpful exercise.
What we learn in our journey is what we like and also in meeting others, is determining who has similar tastes to us and so when they say "such and such sounded great" we are likely to go and have a listen WHEREAS the opposite may be true where we were not enamored with the sound of a system.
I have come to appreciate that people have different perspectives of what sounds right and all we can do is to choose what sounds right for us. I for one do not care what others think about my system as the important thing is me and my family thinks it sounds fabulous and that is all that matters.
As such it is wrong to "evaluate" someone else's system as it has been put together to please their ears and not anyone else. However visiting others and listening to their systems will allow us to determine what we like or do not and so is a helpful exercise.
What we learn in our journey is what we like and also in meeting others, is determining who has similar tastes to us and so when they say "such and such sounded great" we are likely to go and have a listen WHEREAS the opposite may be true where we were not enamored with the sound of a system.
I have come to appreciate that people have different perspectives of what sounds right and all we can do is to choose what sounds right for us. I for one do not care what others think about my system as the important thing is me and my family thinks it sounds fabulous and that is all that matters.