Sure, @atmasphere , but what is meant by "more musical"?
@immatthewj That which is better able to sound like real music.
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"musical" cannot be put in words except by using synonyms as in the Merriam Webster...
"musical" can be defined in acoustic factors as these factors can be controlled in a room by some ears/brain EXPERIMENTING ...
Experimenting what ?
We know for example that the transients are important in the timbre "musical" judgement by a listener...
To improve the transients it is possible for example to play with the room ratio between absorption, reflective and diffusive surface ...
To give another example, imaging will be greatly improve by the listener location and the speakers location and the wise use of the lateral reflections at the right timing ...
Etc....
I can go on with reading you 10 acoustic articles...
Or as any idiot i can ask forever a definition of musical in words that dont exist , because "musical" being an acoustic concept suppose some ears/brain and a pair of hands modifying the room acoustic parameters to his liking and after studying the concepts of timbre , immersiveness and spatial qualities in such a way and enough then he had learn what to do instead of changing cables and gear without end...
Then you will understand what is a "musical" timbre perception by being able to perceive any of his aspects ...
For timbre there is 5 aspects to play with.... You cannot put this understanding and set of experiments with specific gear in a specific room in few words...You must experiment with acoustic concepts... Even if i paste any text acoustics if you dont play with the parameters associated with these concepts you will not understand ... Acoustics is an APPLIED knowledge not words and not even equations because hearing is too complex ...
Do you get it ?
Or will you roll in laughters ?
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Well, that may be getting some where. However, in that case, "more musical" may differ depending upon one's musical tastes. If one was a thrash-metal fan, one might find different equipment "more musical" than if one was a fan of chamber music. If one was a fan of the latter, one might find a 12 wpc SET amp and some high efficiency speakers to be "more musical." If one bought that combination to jam out on Mega Death, one would probably be disappointed. A massive SS amp with some huge JBLs might be "more musical" in that application given your definition. Personally, I am good with the "having the pleasing harmonious qualities of music" definition, but as I have typed before: what pleases some does not please all, and therefore not everyone defines "more musical" the same way. |
Musical acoustics or music acoustics is a multidisciplinary field that combines knowledge from physics,[1][2][3] psychophysics,[4] organology[5] (classification of the instruments), physiology,[6] music theory,[7] ethnomusicology,[8] signal processing and instrument building,[9] among other disciplines. As a branch of acoustics, it is concerned with researching and describing the physics of music – how sounds are employed to make music. Examples of areas of study are the function of musical instruments, the human voice (the physics of speech and singing), computer analysis of melody, and in the clinical use of music in music therapy. The pioneer of music acoustics was Hermann von Helmholtz, a German polymath of the 19th century who was an influential physician, physicist, physiologist, musician, mathematician and philosopher. His book On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music[7] is a revolutionary compendium of several studies and approaches that provided a complete new perspective to music theory, musical performance, music psychology and the physical behaviour of musical instruments. |
A good system an OPTIMAL system cannot be only good for one style of music... This is completely beside acoustic understanding of what is a "musical sound" ... Buy some beats headphone or a boom box it will do ...No need of acoustics for you ... 😊
And by the way in a top acoustic Hall everyone know it sound "musical" even a heavy metal group recording there ...Musical taste had nothing to do with "musical" qualities in acoustics experience by the way ... And every one listening mike lavigne room/system say it sound "musical" ... No one claim that for his taste his boom box sound better ... As a dog racing his tail go on with your definition of musical in relation with one individual taste: your own ... It will be enough for you brain ... And Go on laughing at people here ...
myself my own taste in sound GROWS in the last 12 years with my acoustic knowledge and experiments ... We must LEARN how to hear exactly as you must grow our brain all our life ...
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