Phil Leigh;690081 Wrote: > This didn't quite come out as I intended... I didn't mean the musical > elements such as melody, orchestration etc... I meant the sound/timbre > of the performance. > Anyone can appreciate both aspects... But making judgements Bout the > accuracy of the sound reproduction requires more experience than just > listening to lots of stuff.. I think you need some real hands on > experience creating / capturing sounds and THEN listening to them. I'm > only talking about accuracy/fidelity here, not anything else... Nothing > to do with enjoyment or pleasure.
I think you quite close here, I would also add that you are in practice listening to the performance not the equipment modern well designed hifi working inside it's design parameters do very little and the little it does is not wanted ? Who want's slightly more noise and a bit more thd ? So when I as a person forms an opinion about soundstage and midrange warmth it is really a review of the recording as I experience it in that moment with all bias on :) And this can be misleading as I as you say does not hang around mixing studios a lot and don't have intimate knowledge on what's been done. A clever way around is to realise this, and pay attention to hifi that presents different recordings differently. As it should be and realise the limits of hifi Diana Krall is not going to be sitting in your lap with a finger behind your ear even if you buy all class A stereophile stuff there is :) Electronics is very one dimensional 1 input and 1 output and both can be compared and nulled out what is the sound of nothing ? To oversimplify this statement if a electronic device has 0.001% distortion it also has 99.999% signal. If you then pin emotions and musical parameters tomthis machine that only passes or convert a signal what are you thinking. Speakers on the other hand has one input and infinite outputs , imagine the polar plot as a suffle like 3D wave interacting with you and your room and the thd and other nonlinearities is always there. There is one feature almost all home speakers suffers, dynamic range is frequency dependent so bass spl is always restricted but midrange and above not, this alters the sound dramatically as you crank up the volume ! People suffers such massive flaws in thier hig end mini monitor while searching for the perfect dac ? -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
