Five minutes to teach you to choose a good stereo
Introduction: How to go to pick a good speaker equipment, you know what are the methods? Follow my steps below to see how a good stereo is selected.1 I hope that I have prepared these can help you!
Regardless of the degree of fever, audio audiophiles must need to go through the process of equipment purchase in order to enter the temple of Hi-Fi audiophile. Purchase of audio is in fact a thing of joy in the pain, not only to eyes, ears, and more importantly, discernment, from the selection of brands, models, and constantly running around with, comparison, audition, pain in the budget and ideals of the compromise between, but also through a variety of magazines, the Internet rummage through a variety of information, to get more for the preferred product reviews, to see if their own choices have vision, and in the end, but also to choose a good dealer. Good dealers, after all, the market is not good, merchants use a myriad of means, light to buy overpriced goods, heavy to buy fake goods. In a word: buying audio is not an easy thing. Especially for the audiophile song, in the equipment hardware, with the effect and brand quality is not too familiar with the situation, especially need to maintain a calm, maintain an objective, minimize the peripheral factors on the psychological impact. Of course, also need to master certain skills. I have recently been looking for equipment that suits me, and I have accumulated some experience to share with you:
First, qualify yourself: what type of music you like
Because the audio is bought back to listen to yourself, everyone has their own favorite specific types of music, or classical; or rock; or folk; or opera; or jazz, and so on. Opera; or jazz and so on, I believe that no one will like all kinds of music at the same time, even if it is a particularly wide range of interests, but also a few categories of music will be obsessed with. For equipment, often only good at performing a certain range of music types, such as the European side of the British speakers, represented by its mellow, sweet characteristics are particularly good at performing equipment, the dynamics and power to win, suitable for playing some of the dynamics of the music, such as film music, rock or large scenes of the soundtrack, and thus the HI-FI community has? British sound. The British sound, the American sound, the American sound. The term "British sound" and "American sound" are used in the HI-FI industry. The HI-FI industry has the term "British sound" and "American sound", which represent the two most common styles of different genres. Looking at all the equipment available today, is it possible to find a device that can play all types of music 100% perfectly? Yes, but the price may be very much out of your budget.
The above is something that many people understand, so why am I repeating it? Because I want to emphasize that each type of equipment has its own good playback of the types of music, there is no equipment to play all types of music are very good; on the other hand, because the characteristics of the equipment is relatively fixed, in the purchase of audio equipment, to determine which types of music they like is particularly important! Like to listen to which kinds of music to buy which kind of equipment, give up to buy one? The idea of buying one-size-fits-all equipment is a good one. s good idea of buying one-size-fits-all equipment. Once, a friend of mine went to buy a stereo, and when he auditioned it, all the music was classical, but I knew that my friend usually liked to listen to fast songs with a sense of rhythm, and sometimes even rock. Later, he said that a certain master in a magazine had taught him a lesson that any equipment that plays good classical music sounds good when it plays any music, so he used classical music to test the equipment, plus all the equipment reviews in the magazine used classical music for this. As a result, we can imagine the missteps of using British speakers to play rock, without knowing clearly what type of music they like when they go to the cloud to select equipment, and then realized that their equipment is not suitable to play their favorite songs, but it is too late.
Selecting a good audio dealer
I think selecting a good dealer is a very critical part of the process. Because we finally have to go through the dealer to buy all the equipment. A good dealer first, not only to ensure that they can buy the real thing, at the same time, a good dealer will also be on the selection, comparison to the final purchase of the whole process will have a great impact, choose to a good dealer, will maximize their own satisfaction, the real equipment.
a. From the store
Now the dealer is generally divided into two categories, one is mainly to do? The first one is the one that mainly does the job. The first one is the HI-FI, which does not know what HI-FI, only look at the price of the product appearance, the sales staff said a few good words on the drift to pay the kind of money. This store is generally decorated with magnificent, set up a few large groups of equipment all day broadcast "Andy Lau Concert" and so on. If you really want to buy HI-FI on the quick escape, there is selling furniture! Another kind is mainly do HI-FI audiophile business, such a store is where we are going. Generally there will be two kinds: one mainly do retail, these stores are generally very simple decoration, decoration design focus on the principle of acoustics. Generally will set up a special listening area, sound insulation effect is better, the door will be able to close the door will be outside the counter sound isolation. This kind of audition room can better listen to the equipment? The whole picture? Therefore, this is the most basic necessary conditions. There is a store may be mainly engaged in wholesale business, in order to do business with casual customers, only in a corner of the store set up a listening area, there is no soundproofing measures. In this kind of store interview listening, can listen to how much effect on how much to listen to it. Once I went to a store claiming to operate audiophile gall bladder to listen to a gall bladder, the owner and others chatting with the sound even more than the volume of the music played, its audiophile? Quality? The quality of the audiophile? 98 years Wan Shang Hu Wei store with pentagonal 25,000 worth of German amplifiers push more than 3,000 Diva speakers, but also listen to the very, listen out, but also after a long time of posing debugging. Unfortunately, now it is all replaced.
b. From the shopkeeper's sales pitch
The quality of the shopkeeper can truly reflect the level of a store. It can be said that now many common audio chain stores, advertising to do a lot, but its staff are sold are not what HI-FI knowledge, this is not to say, even if a lot of sales of well-known HI-FI brand agency, the quality of its staff is still not to be commended. If you fancy which equipment, proposed audition, they will ask you when to buy, if you really want to audition (strange, I did not audition how can I decide to buy it? Doesn't that logic make sense?) . Or even if they give me an audition, how can I listen to it if I just pick it up and let you listen to it? To put it bluntly, these shopkeepers just don't have HI-FI literacy and don't understand the purchasing psychology of audiophiles. Good dealership clerk, is a very good understanding and understanding of the audiophile buying process and psychology, know that will play HI-FI people do not have a number of audition comparisons will not be random decision, so he will show great patience, generally want to which equipment to connect which equipment for you to listen to, want to listen to what disc on what disk, and try to arrange for the best possible environment for you to hear the most exciting rendition of the equipment (equipment playback) I will buy it if it's not working well.) The best environment will be arranged for you to hear the best interpretation of the equipment (would I buy the equipment if it doesn't play well?). In your audition time, unless you talk to him, otherwise he will not disturb you, will not instantly sell equipment how good how good, but will give you some tips and guidance. In Guangzhou, there are several that I think are doing a very good job, and I sometimes bother them repeatedly to listen to a piece of equipment, and they are very patient with me.
c. From the dealer in charge of the content of the talk
General dealer bosses know some HI-FI knowledge, but know how much will vary from person to person. The store is generally good to know the line of bosses, he himself is an audiophile, and very objective comments on a variety of equipment, so the conversation can get a lot of audio and music knowledge; on the contrary, some are not too much in the line of bosses will only say, this machine effect is good ah, the tone is beautiful, layered and so on a big push? The words of the licensed goods? There is a kind is in the middle level of the boss, this part of the boss itself has a better look at audio knowledge and experience with, but the commercial flavor is relatively strong, often on their own behalf of the equipment praised, but not on behalf of their own equipment cheap is very low or avoid evaluation. This part of the boss should be careful to deal with, to distinguish the authenticity of their arguments. I once learned that there is a radio audio program host, itself is to open the store, so he did to the listeners when recommended, recommended several are his own store agency products, which is more business-minded boss, but ultimately the customer is not a very good thing.
d. From the agency's products
Usually the old dealers agent's products are more reputable in the market, with a certain quality and quality of stable brands and models, and there will be a few is the main brand, even if at the same time the agent of the other brands, the grade will deal with a certain level of grade. If you see a dealer agent of a variety of products, a variety of grades of equipment infiltration, so we have to be more careful, may have met? The first time I've seen this, I've seen a lot of people who have been in the same boat for a long time.
e. See if there is a website and their own forum
Dealers generally have very few websites, and not many of them do a good job, and many dealers may feel that there is not much need. The role of the website is mainly to provide a platform for customers and sellers to have a platform for communication, dare to open the website dare to open the forum, that is very important to the customer's feedback, but also attach importance to the exchange of ideas with consumers. This kind of dealer is worth relying on.
Three, please believe in their own ears
I dare to make a guarantee, like the sound of the audiophile, although not all are? The first is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you're doing.
Four, be sure to audition in the same environment as possible
I once had a lesson in the selection of equipment, often every family to listen to the results of listening to a large number of equipment, simply do not know in the end which is good. The reason is very simple, in each of the audio store audition when the equipment used are not the same. Different amplifiers, different cables, tone is often a big difference, when looking at a certain speaker, this store sounds good, to listen to other stores and it seems that it is not the same thing; the same in the selection of amplifiers, due to the different stores are with different speakers for you to listen to, so the effect will certainly be very different from the far, can not really compare, not to mention the need to make a choice. Therefore, I think, if possible, try to be able to audition in the same or almost the same environment, at least the matching between the equipment to maintain relative consistency. Method is very simple, first choose a good speaker, you fancy a certain speaker, that can be to all the speakers of the audio store to listen to the effect of the box, although with different amplifiers, listening environment is different, but the quality of the speaker can still be heard. Generally have a certain quality of speakers with different amplifiers, although the timbre will be different, but the overall quality, such as the style of sound, high-frequency birth sex, the thickness of the low-frequency, soundstage focus and separation, etc. There should not be a big change, and by the way, you can listen to the speakers with different amplifiers with the effect. If a pair of speakers in different stores appear to differ greatly in effect, or present two different styles that should be careful, which means that the pair of boxes may be very picky amplifier, or even store people in the tampering, such as connecting you to listen to a different pair of speakers, or in an inconspicuous place to connect a subwoofer to improve the low-frequency sense of volume and so on. A Tan speakers set down, there is a benchmark for comparison, the next step is to choose the amplifier, to sell that speaker or close to the model of the speaker, but also represents a number of brands of amplifiers in the store audition, comparison and selection. According to my experience, the general audio store to sell the equipment are basically in about the same grade, sell 5000 yuan grade speakers store, will not represent the 500 yuan amplifier, so this kind of store is not difficult to find. If you have chosen to buy speakers store, more opportunities to call the store manager out of the face in the peer to borrow equipment to do with the audition, try to give yourself a closer match with the platform, so it is easy to listen to the effect, but also easy to choose according to the matching situation. When I buy their speakers, it is through the sales store to help get a few domestic gallows amplifier into the audition room for AB audition, the advantages and disadvantages are very easy to distinguish, but also easy to find their own wants.
Fifth, do not be superstitious so-called? The name brand?
Famous brand is often the quality and strength of the promotion of evidence. In the audio world, a variety of famous brand has many, in not familiar with each famous brand below the product line 's characteristics, often the famous brand is equivalent to? The sound of the beautiful? This is a very fatal misunderstanding. Now the audio market is still very unstandardized, many audio manufacturers tend to be only hype brand, do not do quality, often make a large number of brand name loud? Audio home furnishings? , for example, will open a lot of specialty stores and concept stores. In addition, some domestic manufacturers originally in the HI-FI route, began to turn the target customers to non-audiophile consumers, began to focus on the sales front of the decoration and excessive pursuit of the appearance of the equipment, equipment, the internal quality and did not see much of a leap. And some foreign brands are very famous, also began to be assembled in the domestic production, its quality relative to the original factory goods or a certain difference. On the contrary, there are some unheard of brand (may have been more famous in the HI-FI community, but not much knowledge of people outside the industry), as it focuses on improving the quality of much more than focusing on the brand's hype, but instead of producing? Beautiful sound? The product, imported equipment is more so, some lesser-known brand is often a good thing, so the brand to consider, but the key is still the ear receives the goods.
Six, do not believe that the appearance
Good equipment appearance does not necessarily look good, usually very concise, on the sound quality to enhance the function of no use can save on the province, but the production process will be good. The first thing you'll notice is that the sound is not as good as it used to be. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good sounding device, and that you have a good sound. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good sounding device, and that you have a good sound.
For the appearance, I think HI-FI equipment will generally have two more obvious characteristics:
1, the appearance is often very concise, the appearance of the general are not exaggerated, will not be a car paint, high-grade mahogany and other kinds of decorative features with the formation of as if the very trendy, ahead of the effect (more than 200,000 yuan of equipment to another point), the more high-grade equipment material tends to be the more simple, you may want to pay attention to You may want to pay attention to some European and American speakers, are very common appearance, and even a little simple, but out of the sound is often a grade.
2, another aspect of the appearance of concise, is the simplicity of the function, especially the amplifier, redundant features are generally not. For example, high, bass adjustment generally does not appear on the HI-FI amplifier, karaoke function can not have, that is the characteristics of domestic AV amplifier, individual high-level amplifier and even the left and right channel balance adjustment knob are not. In addition, there is generally no large liquid crystal display, those? Flash ah, flash ah?
Seven, do not compare the price
For audio equipment, the price often does not fully reflect the quality of the base, 10,000 yuan of equipment will of course be a lot better than 1,000 yuan of equipment, but sell 5,000 yuan of equipment is not necessarily better than the sale of 4,500 yuan of equipment, the closer the gear is more so. Because each manufacturer's design level is not the same, the components used are not the same, the parts import channels are not the same, the level of cost control is not the same, the cost of sales channels are not the same, the advertising investment is not the same and other factors, resulting in the level of close to the market price of the product is often a big difference in the price, so do not be superstitious about the price, be sure to go to listen and compare. Audio is used to listen to, not to fight the rich, do not use the price to measure the level of equipment. The same brand under the situation is relatively good, the positioning of high equipment materials are generally better than the pricing of low, but not 100% sure, do not rule out the manufacturers deliberately raise the price to enhance the grade of a particular piece of equipment, materials may be almost the same goods. In particular, we should pay special attention to one point, the purchase of the need to overcome a relatively common psychological misunderstanding of the price, specifically when you look at a piece of equipment, such as a pair of speakers 8,000 yuan, and you feel that you have the economic ability to make this investment, often your thinking about the purchase of this equipment is currently locked, when you go to listen to another pair of speakers sold for 6,000 yuan, often due to their own thinking about purchases Being pinned down as well as the influence of price psychology, many times will think that 6000 yuan speakers in all aspects are less than 8000 yuan box. As you can afford to buy 8,000 yuan of boxes, the money is not spent always feel uncomfortable, naturally, the last will choose 8,000 yuan of speakers. This is a very common purchase of qualitative thinking, I have just mentioned, the price of expensive is not necessarily really better than the price of low, or may have their own strengths and weaknesses, so audition, try not to bring ? Price? This colored glasses to feel the equipment.
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