Phil Leigh Wrote: > > > Regardless of how flat the FR actually is, minor FR changes such as > treble lift or reducing upper bass can have the same psycho-acoustical > effect as boosting volume - it sounds "better" for a while... >
You're right, but it really depends on the source. For example, I might crank the bass to listen to hiphop, but if I then listen to a male voice reading news, for example, it will sound terrible (sometimes to the point that it's actually hard to understand). I would prefer to have as flat a response as possible, and let the audio engineer decide how it should sound. > There is also evidence to suggest that a flat in-room response above > 16KHz is not desirable...a gentle roll-off being preferred by most > people in a position to experiment. > Sounds reasonable; that's mostly above the range of human hearing anyway. Maybe such high frequencies, when perceptible, are just annoying. I seem to be able to hear higher frequency sounds than most people I know (for example I can hear the sound a TV screen makes, which is probably around 16 kHz), and mostly I'd prefer not to, as they can be accutely uncomfortable if loud. > Please bear in mind that most recording engineers do not mix recordings > to sound good in flat-response anechoic rooms! They anticipate the > effect of an average (?) room on their mixes. > I've often wondered about that - is that true? How do they decide what's a typical room? You always picture sound engineers wearing headphones, but as you say that could give them a pretty distorted impression for what most people will actually hear on their systems. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22000 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
