Tidal Speakers owners

05-13-11: Tidal
A chameleon-like ability to follow every change in equipment is always a first little sign for “neutrality” of a speaker if one does not have or care about measurements.

Jörn - This comment struck me. A while back, I started an A'gon thread on the topic of neutrality. In it, I proposed a way to judge the neutrality of a component in cases where you do not have measurements. Here is what I wrote...

"Your system is becoming more neutral whenever you change a system element (component, cable, room treatment, etc.) and you get the following results:

(1) Individual pieces of music sound more unique.
(2) Your music collection sounds more diverse.

This theory occurred to me one day when I changed amps and noticed that the timbres of instruments were suddenly more distinct from one another. With the old amp, all instruments seemed to have a common harmonic element (the signature of the amp?!). With the new amp, individual instrument timbres sounded more unique and the range of instrument timbres sounded more diverse. I went on to notice that whole songs (and even whole albums) sounded more unique, and that my music collection, taken as a whole, sounded more diverse.

That led me to the following idea: If, after changing a system element, (1) individual pieces of music sound more unique, and (2) your music collection sounds more diverse, then your system is contributing less of its own signature to the music. And less signature means more neutral."

I'd be very interested to hear your reaction to this idea.

Bryon

it is not appropriate for manufacatur to comment on his products, on these end- user threads.
self- promoting noneses, together with self- marketing is double wrong.

Bryoncunningham, the Munich audio show is going on now with many listening to quality speakers and deciding which sound better. Jorn may not respond quickly.

Jorn described neutrality very well. I would add that your system should react accordingly to different recordings as well as equipment. If every recording sounds unique you are in the right path...Or vice versa, the common sound attributes you identify between different recordings is your system's character. ;)

Happy Listening,

Mike

Dear Bryon,

I can follow your experience and your conclusion could be a first proof that your system allows you to hear the different qualites of your recordings. Cause in the end of the day it is like this: if you have the perfectly neutral speakers/cables/amps/source/room, what do you hear then and would start to describe? The recording quality itself.

And this can be both a wonderful revelation and bring you closer to the artist then ever before, or it can show you the same unasked truth as seeing a not so pretty face on a 55" full HD screen. I believe the whole hifi camp is making a constant discussion between these two ones: reproducing music as it was recorded and reproducing music as one likes to hear it. And all inbetween ;-).

Please understand that I do not want to be to much involved into this, I just wanted to explain it a bit better what it is what WE do.

Jörn