@frogman
Interesting - we agree on track 1. However on the Nina Simone I can hear the better resolution on the Palladian, but Iām getting more grunt from her lower registers coming from the abdomen - example .51 to 1.06 where she draws the note out and you hear more of the abdomen/lower chest with the FR. More expressive. At the end of the note on the Palladian she is tailng off, whereas with the FR she pushes out the last of the note from deeper down. Of course we dont know which is more correct since we were not there. I changed to air buds and the same result, although the upper mid lower treble "pressure"that I alluded to on track 1 is lessened on the air buds from the music hall debeās. The debeās may have problems in that area.
Iām going to run it through my system either tonight or tomorrow and do another take.
@halcro - to avoid having to see your therapist - they are both pretty good.
Interesting - we agree on track 1. However on the Nina Simone I can hear the better resolution on the Palladian, but Iām getting more grunt from her lower registers coming from the abdomen - example .51 to 1.06 where she draws the note out and you hear more of the abdomen/lower chest with the FR. More expressive. At the end of the note on the Palladian she is tailng off, whereas with the FR she pushes out the last of the note from deeper down. Of course we dont know which is more correct since we were not there. I changed to air buds and the same result, although the upper mid lower treble "pressure"that I alluded to on track 1 is lessened on the air buds from the music hall debeās. The debeās may have problems in that area.
Listen in particular to the change in the quality of the voice at 0:15 and especially at 0:32 when she sings āand then someā; particularly on the word āthenā. Simoneās voice naturally takes on a slightly nasal quality on āthenā.Yes I can hear the nasal quality you mention, on both cartridges, slightly more noticeable on the FR, it sounds almost like she has a slight cold, but I am still hearing more lower register from her voice with the FR as per my previous example. I still think there is more vocal nuance with the FR on this track, which is the opposite from the first track. ( subject to the vagaries of my computer/headphones). One of the imponderables is the impact of microphone distortions from the early mikes. Could be VTA differences between records that might explain differences between track 1 & 2 on the 2 cartridges.
Iām going to run it through my system either tonight or tomorrow and do another take.
@halcro - to avoid having to see your therapist - they are both pretty good.