Unsound,
I think you have a very good point.
We, all of us, do have at least slightly different 'sensitivities' including our ears, good point.
But is it only me, around here, that gets the impulse to 'flee' from a room where some -odd- sounding system plays?
Come to think of it, some commentator/reviewer had to remark after the last RMAF: If it sounds (from OUTSIDE the room) that some live event is going on in there -- then I'll go in and listen. Nothing scary here, methinks.
It this quality of powerful 'emotional unease' that bugs me and I'm trying to put a handle on it.
A phase & time aligned BOSE clock radio is not going to do it, right?
It is with absolute certainty some Hi-End gear, that seems more a weapon of mass-destruction -to the nervous system- and not some benign transistor radio. If you know what I mean. But I have to concede, that some folks like bungee-jumping and I really don't.
Still, should you design a speaker all-out for time and phase and trade off proper amplitude behaviour as some folks seem to see fit?
Because THAT doesn't matter, 'cause you can't hear it? Maybe, if it sells, I guess.
Still leaves me unsettled, 'cause it's a bit like selling an X for a Y, or?
Of course everyone can build their own 'evolution' Hi-End, though a bit of awareness was never a bad thing, I think.
Axel
PS: got to bite my tongue not to mention names :-)
I think you have a very good point.
We, all of us, do have at least slightly different 'sensitivities' including our ears, good point.
But is it only me, around here, that gets the impulse to 'flee' from a room where some -odd- sounding system plays?
Come to think of it, some commentator/reviewer had to remark after the last RMAF: If it sounds (from OUTSIDE the room) that some live event is going on in there -- then I'll go in and listen. Nothing scary here, methinks.
It this quality of powerful 'emotional unease' that bugs me and I'm trying to put a handle on it.
A phase & time aligned BOSE clock radio is not going to do it, right?
It is with absolute certainty some Hi-End gear, that seems more a weapon of mass-destruction -to the nervous system- and not some benign transistor radio. If you know what I mean. But I have to concede, that some folks like bungee-jumping and I really don't.
Still, should you design a speaker all-out for time and phase and trade off proper amplitude behaviour as some folks seem to see fit?
Because THAT doesn't matter, 'cause you can't hear it? Maybe, if it sells, I guess.
Still leaves me unsettled, 'cause it's a bit like selling an X for a Y, or?
Of course everyone can build their own 'evolution' Hi-End, though a bit of awareness was never a bad thing, I think.
Axel
PS: got to bite my tongue not to mention names :-)