We are not looking for an assessment but your preferences. Clearly, the various drivers sound different and I would not classify them as all nasaly. That is why there is some hard rock and jazz thrown in as other genres. Some of these drivers work well on vocals but not so well on rock. There are drivers that can sound good on all three.
Yes that's same for all it needs concentration eventually headphones, studio guys probably have benefits this game, but when you have get used to the quality it's possible to compare and make a preference. Changing capaistors from electrolytic to bipolar HQ also need some consentration when A/B ing.
Our playback equipment (and/or environment) would be very different anyway, so I think this is good enough (I mean the mp3).
That said, we'd better avoid digging deep into the ultimate details in the sound, just compare their overall balances and maybe find out some problems of intrinsic resonance etc.
That said, we'd better avoid digging deep into the ultimate details in the sound, just compare their overall balances and maybe find out some problems of intrinsic resonance etc.
Thanks feeding us experience and explanations from a studio experienced including #34
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Well, if you read the title of the thread, you would have noticed that the word "meaningful" is not there.
The whole point to X's exercise here is to show that for a given set of variables, drivers differ in their way to handle a signal.
We all knew this of course, but it was a fun and interesting exercise anyway.
Since this is a DIY forum, so many variables will later come into play besides the driver. The design and the assembly of the enclosure will have a profound impact and will differ from person to person, as no one share the same woodworking skills or design background. And since I believe the perfect driver hasn't been produced yet, there will always have a bit of tinkering involved, whether by enclosure design or EQ to accommodate the listening environment.
If you believe that you can get a meaningful assessment of a driver from listening to someone else's recording in their own environment with their own gear that differs from you, well, then, go ahead and start a new thread... but I'll take a back seat and watch the show from a distance! There'll be much too much fireworks for my taste!
I've added a poll to post #1 with a close date of 16th March. The forum software has a checkbox option of 'make poll results public'. I've left that unchecked so you will have to see how it looks. There are no other options though.
Mooly,
Thanks a lot, but we don't know which track is a recording of which particular driver. Driver names have been put as A, B, C, D, E, F, G in the clip file names by xrk971.
Hence, please remove the driver names and make it Driver A, B, C, D, E, F, G for the polls.
And ra7 has requested that users should not be able to see poll results till the poll is closed - request you to make it a "blind poll" if possible.
Thanks a lot, but we don't know which track is a recording of which particular driver. Driver names have been put as A, B, C, D, E, F, G in the clip file names by xrk971.
Hence, please remove the driver names and make it Driver A, B, C, D, E, F, G for the polls.
And ra7 has requested that users should not be able to see poll results till the poll is closed - request you to make it a "blind poll" if possible.
I've added a poll to post #1 with a close date of 16th March. The forum software has a checkbox option of 'make poll results public'. I've left that unchecked so you will have to see how it looks. There are no other options though.
Thank you, Mooly. Is it possible to make poll not public? Or is that because I am thread starter that I can see it?
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I can see it too, but maybe because I am a mod. can someone else say whether they get the view results link? from What I can see there is no option to hide this other than what Mooly has already done.
I've pm'ed my subjective impressions, xrk can post them if / when he sees fit
Tony.
I've pm'ed my subjective impressions, xrk can post them if / when he sees fit
Tony.
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The B80 drivers are in order (back order actually) and the SS will be ordered eventually due to the generosity of others in this forum who are contributing materials and resources. Unlike some, who just like to point out all the flaws when it is really here for fun. Think of it as like cheese or wine tasting - all for fun and enjoyment. If a wine doesn't suit you, it may suit a lot of other folks with different tastes. The point here is to offer the palette of different tastes. I see that it would be more of a wine connoisseur tasting to use lossless FLAC's. If I can figure out a way to host those files without using an expiring upload service that would be great.
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I'm also the one that is not sure how usefull is this test.
I took it for supporting X work and for fun and have picked my favorite track. It will be fun to see which one is behind letter D
Thanks for your work X
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