Well, it happened again. Wife and I were taking the doggo for a short walk, down this small trail between houses used by the grammar school kids to cut through neighborhoods. I heard someone playing a violin and immediately, unmistakenly could tell "That's real; not someone's stereo / boombox / Alexa / Sonos / etc"
The recognition is so uncanny I couldnt even trust myself - I had to quit following her and go investigate. Sure enough, at one home's back porch, someone was playing a real instrument, live. "Where'd you go?" "I just had to see if what I heard was real or not".
Anyone else have this happen on occasion? Like riding a bicycle through a park, someone somewhere plucks a string on a guitar and BAM! the sonic recognition is immediate. I'm 65 and still the live and real is heard that way; reproduced is like a stale bag of chips in comparison.
Wish I knew what the key was - and could get my "HiFi" system to trick me in the same way consistently.
The recognition is so uncanny I couldnt even trust myself - I had to quit following her and go investigate. Sure enough, at one home's back porch, someone was playing a real instrument, live. "Where'd you go?" "I just had to see if what I heard was real or not".
Anyone else have this happen on occasion? Like riding a bicycle through a park, someone somewhere plucks a string on a guitar and BAM! the sonic recognition is immediate. I'm 65 and still the live and real is heard that way; reproduced is like a stale bag of chips in comparison.
Wish I knew what the key was - and could get my "HiFi" system to trick me in the same way consistently.
For some of us, the opposite happens...countless moons ago I wandered into a stereo shop & I was dumbfounded hearing someone playing an oboe, "why is someone playing an instrument in here...are they recording it or something?"
I was shocked looking about...I found a pair of Infinity Qbs sounding just like the real thing...that's why I have a reworked pair of Qbs now.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rick...
I was shocked looking about...I found a pair of Infinity Qbs sounding just like the real thing...that's why I have a reworked pair of Qbs now.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rick...
I guess those Infinity’s could handle the full output of a single oboe without compression, if the player wasn’t blowing his brains out when the recording was being made. They might have a little more trouble with a drum kit - or even a violin. Fiddles can be loud - which means a lot of peak power to reproduce cleanly, and a lot of dynamic range in the recording chain.
Yes, these Infinity's are for "mid-field" duty as they are only 2.5 meters distant...driving them is a matched Carver TFM 15CB which is rated at 140 Watts @ four ohms, the QBs rated at 150 Watts @ four ohms.
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I had the same experience with an someone playing an accordion in a back yard near me. No doubt it was was live and not a reproduction.
I can understand the obvious clarity when it's a percussion instrument, like "bongos". When it's a bowed string, or a buzzing reed...a more continuous sound, versus a transient...
My "default" listening for realism...find your acoustic guitar playing musician friend, bring him/her to your listening room, obtain a third party listener, blindfold them.
Find an example of Eddies Van Halen's song "Spanish Fly", have your guitar playing friend on a stool in front of your right speaker, play the EVH track, set the levels vs. the real guitar.
Bring in your third party listener...making sure they don't know the song, Spanish Fly....Have your friend play his guitar, then the recorded track...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rick...
Find an example of Eddies Van Halen's song "Spanish Fly", have your guitar playing friend on a stool in front of your right speaker, play the EVH track, set the levels vs. the real guitar.
Bring in your third party listener...making sure they don't know the song, Spanish Fly....Have your friend play his guitar, then the recorded track...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rick...
