Patrick Dixon;216334 Wrote: > You will have significant differences in 'frequency response' between > one recording and the next, so you are correct, the frequency response > aspect is completely subjective. > > I wonder, can you tell one person's voice from another? For example, > on TV advertising voice overs, can you pick the speaker?
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Voices are easy to distinguish precisely because they have different and very particular tones. Our ears/minds are extremely adept at picking up slight differences in voices and remembering them. When loudspeakers have a distorted frequency response (as they always do) they modify those tones grossly, and it's totally obvious that the sound you're hearing is not a natural voice. Same thing with instruments - it's very rare to come across a speaker that can reproduce walking bass (an acoustic double bass playing a plucked scale, let's say) accurately. As the tone rises you can hear the crossovers and the change in timbre as you go from one driver to another. I notice that all the time, even in very high-end speakers. Speakers are very primitive devices compared to every other audio component. They also have by far the hardest job to do - creating sound waves in a room precisely as needed is much, much more difficult than simply reproducing and amplifying an electric signal in a wire. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36994 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
