How do you add color?

@frogman

+1 I think you put your finger on it. I looked at this for a while and kept thinking… but…. but.
 

Most good high fi companies try to make their products sound like the real thing. I suspect those that use simple electronic measurement fail miserably. It’s great if you can parrot a sine wave… but real music is all frequencies and amplitudes being simultaneously varied.

All the great designers use engineering principles as a starting place, then listen. Ruler flat speakers sound terrible. I have heard this from speaker designers and reviewers. I don’t look at many specs. I read about or listen myself.

Different engineers approach getting to the best most natural sound from different directions… different designs, technology, materials to arrive at their best… and they arrive in slightly different places. Hence, you get different flavors.

frogman is right. How have you been ?

I would add that take two great guitars and they may sound very very different, though both will have full color. Yeah, a matter of taste and of the kind of music you play. Flamenco guitar, classical guitar, blues guitar, country guitar.

I’ve been well, @inna .  Thank you.  It’s been an extraordinarily busy time, so not posting as much as usual,  Hope all is well with you,  

It is. Last time I remember we argued about Sonny Rollins. I don't see Orpheus10 participate in Jazz thread.

@frogman Respectfully, I may have said it first at the top of the thread. 😉

I hate when a system adds a color. It permeates all music played through that system. My goal has been to remove all color so as to achieve tonal neutrality and transparency to what is on the recording.