dynamiclinearity
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| the big one: how do you choose speakers? By what features, data? By dynamic linearity(my handle) which is NOT playing loud cleanly although that's a small part of it. It's accurate, non-compressed level changes whether they are micro changes or macro changes. It's what makes live music sound live. Think of it y... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? It is also possible to under price an expensive product. Many audiophiles feel if a product seems to cheap for what it does there must be something wrong and won't buy it. I know that about 20 years ago the now defunct company Melos produced triod... | |
| odd question about stand-mount speakers It depends on how the crossover was designed and it's affect on vertical dispersion and interaction between the 2 drivers. The dispersion won't be the same upside down and a good speaker was designed to be used the way the designer tells you. | |
| Does anyone know where this J. Gordon Holt comes from? But I do believe the attempt to reproduce the sound of real instruments was Gordon's goal whether it was practical or not I think he would still be the goal and the closer one came to the goal the better | |
| Does anyone know where this J. Gordon Holt comes from? Gordon actually believed audio should attempt to sound like the real thing. And he believed that most audiophiles had forgotten that and were looking for sounding good to them, sort of what too many people call musical. And that was the wrong fork... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? I recall decades ago Bud Fried(IMF and Fried speakers) told me the hardest instruments to get right in order are male voice, female voice and piano. Voice because we are so familiar with it and male voice is harder because it goes lower than femal... | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! I'm not a big Maggie fan but I had a friend who was involved in speaker design including the Pipe Dreams speakers who I trusted alot. And he told me he thought the Maggie real ribbon tweeter in the bigger Maggies was as good a tweeter as there was... | |
| Are Harbeth Super HL5 XD right for me? Never ask for advice on a given speaker. You will always get advice on speakers that are very different from the ones you are asking about but that will, of course, be the ones the advisor loves for his system. | |
| Law Of Diminishing Returns? The law of diminishing returns is absolutely real. But for many audiophiles there is a kind of reverse curve. We become more and mor perceptive of seemingly small changes. And if that's true of you then the small changes become more and more signi... | |
| Sonus Faber Olympica nova 2 VS Sonus Faber Cremona M Loudspeaker vs By the way my friend actually built the first Definitive Technology speakers from a Sandy Grossman idea before Sandy took on his partner who then did the designs. And my friend designed the technique for putting the cloth sock on the definitive sp... | |
| Sonus Faber Olympica nova 2 VS Sonus Faber Cremona M Loudspeaker vs I don't know his name. A friend of mine who knew Sandy well would but we lost him a year ago. I do recall he was Canadian I think and was a full partner in both Definitive Technology and Golden Ear. I don't know who the Polk designer was although ... | |
| Sonus Faber Olympica nova 2 VS Sonus Faber Cremona M Loudspeaker vs hey Petaluman, Sandy Gross is not a designer. But his partner in both Definitive Technology and Golden Ear was an excellent one. But Sandy was one of the best audio businees men in audio. He was largely responsible for the initial growth of Polk,... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? There is no question that a good system well set up can give a sense of depth. What I'm not sure is whether this is reproducing what' s on the recording(which I doubt) or just a room/speaker interaction(which I suspect it is except for a miniscule... | |
| I noticed brightness/harshness more than usual from my system a couple months back. Is it true in both channels. If it's just one something probably went bad in one channel. Try switching left to right in one piece at a time and see if it changes channels. If it's both channels it's tougher but it's your system(which can include... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? Musical is a useless term. It means I like it. New Hi Fi Sound is an oxymoron. The goal of hi fi is reproduction of live sound. Live sound hasn't changed. So there can't be new hi fi sound. |