Comments on: Chi-Fi Tuning – Why It Sounds So Damn Piercing To Western Ears? https://www.audioreviews.org/chi-fi-tuning/ Music for the Masses. Sat, 21 Aug 2021 05:35:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 By: Gabs https://www.audioreviews.org/chi-fi-tuning/#comment-523 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:14:44 +0000 https://www.audioreviews.org/?p=13429#comment-523 Hi,

Great article !

IMO it’s cultural only.
I’m french and I prefer the neutral-bright signature, which is not particularly common.
Maybe is it because I prefer a studio reference sound (Pro) than a fun sound (Hi-fi ?).
I suspect a lot of famous youtubers prefer Harman curve and even darkish sound signature.
I’m perfectly happy with my Zero Audio Zirco Pezzo, Dunu Titan 1es, Senfer DT6/6in1xba/UesPro.

My own bias is that I consider that there are to kind of audiophiles : the one that cannot stand Grado headphones, and of course the one that can stand them, a lot.

Maybe asians founded their sound signature based on products of the west like Grado headphones ?

]]> By: Adin https://www.audioreviews.org/chi-fi-tuning/#comment-506 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 07:51:23 +0000 https://www.audioreviews.org/?p=13429#comment-506 Very informative article.

]]> By: KopiOkaya https://www.audioreviews.org/chi-fi-tuning/#comment-381 Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:36:09 +0000 https://www.audioreviews.org/?p=13429#comment-381 Sichuan is home to 55 ethic groups. Among them, half are from mountain tribes, the other half are from grasslands and plateaus. High-pitch, high-decibel calls and singings are common in such large land mass. Same applies to their loudspeakers demonstration.

]]> By: Jürgen Kraus https://www.audioreviews.org/chi-fi-tuning/#comment-378 Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:29:14 +0000 https://www.audioreviews.org/?p=13429#comment-378 I experienced the harsh tuning in a department store in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, between 2003 and 2010. The store rented out spaces to small dealerships for demos…and their monstrous Hifi speaker towers emitted torturing noises.

]]> By: Mahir Efe Falay https://www.audioreviews.org/chi-fi-tuning/#comment-377 Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:03:42 +0000 https://www.audioreviews.org/?p=13429#comment-377 A nice explanation. I would add the factor of biological & social genetics to the writing. Their ancestors for a thosand or two years were mainly peasants under a particular ruler and free will (and choices) were simply non existant. Punished too. So this continued for around 100 generations. But now they began to see and live the opposite. Some became very rich and spoiled youngsters (2nd gen are called fuerdai) some majority became decent folks. And this "decent" guys are slowly dissolving the chinese preference for sounds.]]> Congrats 😊 A nice explanation. I would add the factor of biological & social genetics to the writing.

Their ancestors for a thosand or two years were mainly peasants under a particular ruler and free will (and choices) were simply non existant. Punished too.

So this continued for around 100 generations. But now they began to see and live the opposite. Some became very rich and spoiled youngsters (2nd gen are called fuerdai) some majority became decent folks. And this “decent” guys are slowly dissolving the chinese preference for sounds.

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