Wait when you will know how to modify them and link them to a grid of resonators.... :)
The Schumann generators not the cat....
The Schumann generators not the cat....
High Performance Audio - The End?
Steve Guttenberg recently posted on his audiophiliac channel what might be an iconoclastic video.
Steve attempts to crystallise the somewhat nebulous feeling that climbing the ladder to the high-end might be a counter productive endeavour.
This will be seen in many high- end quarters as heretical talk, possibly even blasphemous.
Steve might even risk bring excommunicated. However, there can be no denying that the vast quantity of popular music that we listen to is not particularly well recorded.
Steve's point, and it's one I've seen mentioned many times previously at shows and demos, is that better more revealing systems will often only serve to make most recordings sound worse.
There is no doubt that this does happen, but the exact point will depend upon the listeners preference. Let's say for example that it might happen a lot earlier for fans of punk, rap, techno and pop.
Does this call into question almost everything we are trying to ultimately attain?
Could this be audio's equivalent of Martin Luther's 1517 posting of The Ninety-Five theses at Wittenberg?
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Can your Audio System be too Transparent?
Steve Guttenberg 19.08.20
https://youtu.be/6-V5Z6vHEbA
Steve attempts to crystallise the somewhat nebulous feeling that climbing the ladder to the high-end might be a counter productive endeavour.
This will be seen in many high- end quarters as heretical talk, possibly even blasphemous.
Steve might even risk bring excommunicated. However, there can be no denying that the vast quantity of popular music that we listen to is not particularly well recorded.
Steve's point, and it's one I've seen mentioned many times previously at shows and demos, is that better more revealing systems will often only serve to make most recordings sound worse.
There is no doubt that this does happen, but the exact point will depend upon the listeners preference. Let's say for example that it might happen a lot earlier for fans of punk, rap, techno and pop.
Does this call into question almost everything we are trying to ultimately attain?
Could this be audio's equivalent of Martin Luther's 1517 posting of The Ninety-Five theses at Wittenberg?
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Can your Audio System be too Transparent?
Steve Guttenberg 19.08.20
https://youtu.be/6-V5Z6vHEbA
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Steve attempts to crystallise the somewhat nebulous feeling that climbing the ladder to the high-end might be a counter productive endeavour.Kind of like the Heisenberg principle, the closer you look the worse it looks. To the lucky few who get there congratulations, its like you scaled Everest ...... but now what? For the rest of us, we keep climbing and occasionally falling. The higher we climb the better the view, it keeps us going. As my system improves the character and musicality of recordings changes. Some for the better some for the worse. Old recordings are of course different from newer recordings in many ways. Badly mixed or recorded music will sound more so on better equipment. Let the truth set you free.... |
@twoleftears, 'If as claimed above contemporary music sounds good and it's the fault of our systems if it doesn't, perhaps we should be listening to it on those giant powered professional monitors they have in studios, because evidently it sounded good (and just the way it was supposed to sound) to the producers listening to it in that environment.' Because of audio's notorious circle of confusion you'd probably need 3 systems to do that. The first could feature a pair of Tannoy Dual Concentrics primed mainly for UK recordings from the 1950s and 60s. The second could feature a pair of vintage JBL L100s (or their predecessors the 4310 or even Altecs) as used in the US throughout the 1960s and 70s. The third might employ a pair of ATC/Genelec/Yamaha's/ Neumann's or whatever they use today. This way you might get close to what they heard whilst actually recording. Let's face it, no one's recording music to be played back on ultra high performance domestic systems. No one. Okay maybe one or two audiophile producers such as the likes of Barry Diament who according to his website uses Magnepan's Magneplanar MG 3.7i loudspeakers for monitoring! http://www.barrydiamentaudio.com/ |
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