I do not dissagree with what you say.I just don't understand still,how "accurate" recorded electric instruments are.Also I admit that my system might not be "accurate",but I like it's "accuracy" 🙂
Im not sure about your point here....are you asking about the accuracy of the recording itself? I would say we have what we have, how its recorded is totally out of our control. A crap recording is going to sound like crap, I have no control over that.
I like the last point 😀 Absolutely, we should be able to do anything we want with out setups. We have only ourselves to please.
Try this link. It will want to download the PDF file to your computer.
http://www.ultracad.com/mentor/microstrip propagation.pdf
Bud
http://www.ultracad.com/mentor/microstrip propagation.pdf
Bud
What measure of distortion?
At least in speakers, it has been scientifically verified (althou not independently/rigoursly confirmed AFAIK) that the most common distortion measurement -- THD -- has no correlation with how a speaker sounds.
dave
Thanx Bud, that link works.
(just selecting & copying a URL out of a post most often doesn't work because the forum truncates the displayed text in the middle (http://xxx...yyy) to make it take up less space)
A countrol click or right mouse click to copy the link to the clipboard works.
dave
really? I would like to read more.
I thought atleast odd order harmonics can be audiable and are the important harmonics to look at.
Google Earle Geddes and Lydia Lee. They performed the THD vs preference test.
To be precise, it's not that distortion isn't detectable/perceptible, it's that it doesn't correlate with user subjective preference. i.e. a speaker with distortion can be preferred over a distortion free speaker that is afflicted with some other deficiency.
To be precise, it's not that distortion isn't detectable/perceptible, it's that it doesn't correlate with user subjective preference. i.e. a speaker with distortion can be preferred over a distortion free speaker that is afflicted with some other deficiency.
It would be foolish to mock measurements, just as it is foolish to mock the abilities of our ears / brain, in fact all that really matters is how we hear (perceive) sound. Saying that we can not hear a dip at some freq may be so, but since our ears are all that we have to perceive sound, does it really matter then? Again not saying we shouldn't measure for errors, it can only make things better but at the same time there are aspects that we are sensitive to that get neglected just because it is difficult to measure.
Exactly.
Never claimed otherwise, in fact I'm sure our ears detect far more information than what we are aware of, training can increase our awareness of what were detected by our ears.
Sorry, my mistake, I was under the impression that we design and build speakers to listen to music on our hi-fi systems. 😕
Hi again. So silver lets the highs through better than copper. And I guess that anyone who doesn't like silver has a system that is faulty in the highs department. This makes sense and if true I would expect everyone to agree with this observation. Anyway you are agreeing with my original point that cables do not have a sound, they just prevent or allow you to hear what the other components sound like. Of course it is not all about the highs, what does silver do for the lows?
Cheers
My view of cables: All cables have a negative influence on SQ, the better the cable, the less the influence.
I found good silver cables to allow for (is that better? 🙂 ) cleaner, more defined and detailled sound from LF to HF. Pity they are so expensive.
You are looking at it the wrong way..
If silver lets through more highs, and if a speaker is built and designed and measured with copper, then it would incorrect when using silver. It is not the speaker that is faulty, it is the combination of that speaker with silver that is faulty.
It is not certain that a speaker that has been designed WITH silver wires inside,has also been designed FOR silver cables from the amp.
I think more important is to know if using silver will enhance or detract from a speaker, and unfortunately, because we all have different rooms, different ears and different sound processing equipment, there is really only one way to find out.
I did have silver (QED) in a couple of my systems, but I replaced them with other stuff (light blue covered copper from Jaycar, 'Supra' iirc) and I'm pretty sure I prefer the copper.
Its a pita to do some swapping though, so I'm sticking with the copper.
I did have silver (QED) in a couple of my systems, but I replaced them with other stuff (light blue covered copper from Jaycar, 'Supra' iirc) and I'm pretty sure I prefer the copper.
Its a pita to do some swapping though, so I'm sticking with the copper.
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