Working on setting up a Koetsu Black , maybe the same magic, speakers are going to be pretty similar...
This page has some interesting insight into possible effects of speaker cable interaction with the surfaces they reside near.
Yes I will copy and paste because I am too lazy to plagiarize.
Stray voltage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yes I will copy and paste because I am too lazy to plagiarize.
Stray voltage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Working on setting up a Koetsu Black , maybe the same magic, speakers are going to be pretty similar...
IIRC he had a rosewood. The ultimate test was that on some Mercuries recorded in London you could distinctly hear the subway coming and going. He was able to achieve no confounders down to the sub 10hz region. Good luck.
Unfortunately the CD side of it used the "discard what may be unpleasant" creed, so half of the music on my test disks completely vanished when they were played ...
May be we need a dedicated thread to discuss about this. I believe it is an important thing in finding out a "holly grail" of audio. I have seen only very few people who think (better is who experience) that a good system should sound good regardless of the source. I'm one of these, and we need to clarify if the idea is flawless or not. Even if there's a flaw, this idea doesn't come from amateurs who has limited experience, so worth looking at (we can discuss the technical aspects of why it is so).
Decca and mercury recordings were always special
I have a once or twice played copy of DECCA / ARGO - ZK1 - BRITTEN-NOYE'S FLUDDE that I was thinking of using to tune my setup (pederasty notwithstanding). I'm still shooting myself for selling my copy of the "Things to Come" soundtrack.
I agree, it would be worthwhile to discuss it some more. If you want to kick off a new thread, I'll happily participate,
.Personally, I believe the idea is "flawless" - I have a rich reservoir of truly devilish recordings, which I always use to test where "I'm at". By one means or another I can always push a system to a sufficient quality level, where that one, last, "dud" recording can be brought to life ...
Speaking of which, Michael Jackson is an excellent 'metric'. Something like "Bad", which has a heavily layered, rich tapestry of sounds, is one of those albums that gets bigger and bigger, that opens up to an immensely facinating soundscape as a system improves ...
What ever happened to the days of choreographed dancing bad guys.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Fat - YouTube
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Fat - YouTube
For the same reason I hesitate to start a thread. The fact that only a few (no more than 3 or 4 on the net) have such finding, I think there isn't many I can learn from the discussion
(I have been searching for this for all of my life, with frustrations, and suddenly I'm there).
Still worth doing, so that all the ideas and thoughts on the matter are in one place. Personally, I find that a solid discussion brings out the best, and the worst, in people's thinking on a matter - and then there is a simple, for the future, reference to go to, to get a good overview on 'the state of the board' ...
Those sort of considerations vanish when a system gets it "right". Stand next to a real trumpet going for it, to experience a "goosed top-end" - higher frequencies are not a problem, but when they are done badly they are diabolical - I've experienced excrutiating PA 'reinforcement' of big band playing, and this was as close to a hellhole on earth as it gets, soundwise.
Distortion is distortion ...
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