Why isn’t more detail always better?

@noromance...The ’white paper’ answers a lot....most of which previously threw me into the trap laid.....I have a pair of drivers that work best with a blocked vent...imho and taste. the last of which...🤷‍♂️

I might try that on my Heils for grins....

@yyzsantabarbara....makes sense to me....Yam. wouldn’t stay in business if they don’t keep sharpening the bleedin’ edge....

Go listen and file a report....Due Xmas eve....take a roll or 12 of TP ’samples’....;)

A Zylon...WTF is it?  Sounds like a polymer pastiche' to this unfortunate non-immortal.....

Mabbe a layer of that Scotchtissue....laminated to the front of the driven surface for obvious 'texture'....

Of Course he'll opine that his OB's are better, Kenobi.....They're like that...*L*

Won't say he's wrong, either.... ;)

Remember Yamaha came out with Beryllium for the tweeter and midrange in the 1970’s. Paradigm followed suite around 2016 with the Persona lineup.

For their new top end speakers, Yamaha did not want to use Beryllium, so they investigated a fibre used to make yachts (if I remember correctly). What’s interesting about this Zylon material, other than the sound and fast properties, is that the tweeter, mid, and the 12-inch woofer are all made with the same material. This makes for a very coherent sound.

I do not need to go and listen since I bought the NS5000 a few years ago. Super detailed, no fatigue, and very coherent. 

@asvjerry 

The level of detail from a modified Heil is amazing.  But the real magic is happening on the backside, and you can't see it in this picture.

+1 @whart -- exactly right.

No, more and more and more detail isn't good. It quickly becomes unnatural.

The test is simple:

1 - Remember a time when you heard unamplified live music in a well designed acoustic space (classical in a really good room is ideal for this): or live amplified music in a good space where it just sounded well balanced, no peaky/shreaky headaches, bass overwhelming other instruments, etc.

2 - Remember the "detail" on that occasion? You probably don't. That's because it was just there, correct and in harmony with other aspects of the sound. If "detail" jumps out in live music experiences, there's something wrong with the room, the board settings if amplified, or maybe you're sitting too close/too far from the music.

In reproduced music, I used those examples as acoustic comparators. If the detail within the music I hear from the audio system is even in the ballpark of those events, I'm OK with it. Then it's on to other things that are even harder for even good audio systems to get really right: dynamics (impossible to match the real thing), tonality/timbre, soundstage, etc.

In my decades in audio appreciation, excessive, "hyped" detail is a constant annoyance that someone is always espousing to me as the best thing. It never is. It never sounds real or anything even close to real music.