I would agree with that ... I think everyone has a different take on what "tonal accuracy" entails, but for me it means that the essence of the recording is faithfully conveyed - it "sounds the same". That's one of my metrics - when I went to the audio show there were renditions of music I knew very well, which were quite bizarre - I could have been listening to it from a jukebox, or a cheap car radio - the sound I heard had little bearing on what I knew was in the recording ...
One system there, using very expensive kit, that performed well was able to render a key quality of a test CD of mine - a piano captured in a very, very distant acoustic, with loads of echo, came through precisely right; this clip, on another system, not at the show, made no sense at all - it wasn't able to reproduce the low level ambient clues well enough, and it was a bit of a confused blur, to the ears.
Nope, you've just lost the game ... sorry about that!
Of course, if you struggle to pick the difference between live, acoustic instruments and conventional hifi playback, then it's not a problem - but I tend to be a touch more discriminating in my listening ...
Noise threshold of FM/LP/CD -
Anyone remember these from Audio 3/1998?
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View attachment Noise threshold LP-CD-FM.pdf
Anyone remember these from Audio 3/1998?
THx-RNMarsh
View attachment Noise threshold LP-CD-FM.pdf
My wife says that jade plants are nice. It's a succulent, so only needs occasional watering. Thought about one?
You see, it works just as well in the other direction - something is changed, and the system now sounds less musical - we're talking about a spontaneous reaction, an immediate "Hey!!" goes off in your head, you have no time to think about it, no-one has told you what to expect - it's an instinctive reaction ... one can learn a lot by tuning into this instant take, "hearing" what it's saying - and, then switch on your rational mind and see if you can analyse the sound, to see which aspect of it has caused that reaction.
Would improving your working memory also improve your ability to judge sound quality?
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Another exercise that's worth trying: go and find some live, acoustic music, get up nice and close, and "pretend" to yourself that you're listening to an ambitious audio system - and analyse what's "wrong" with that sound - where is it not "good enough"? That might tell you how your thinking shapes how you listen to audio systems, to some degree ...
I can see how that would be for many people, for certain instruments - the trumpet, say. However, there are other instruments where it's relatively comfortable to be in close proximity, for example, the piano - if you really listen to the sound of one very close, you'll notice all sorts of peculiar qualities to the noises, which from a distance then blend into the usual experience of a piano.
What I aim for is the system to reproduce all those "peculiar qualities" - and then you get a realistic piano, at any distance from the speakers ...
What I aim for is the system to reproduce all those "peculiar qualities" - and then you get a realistic piano, at any distance from the speakers ...
Fiat does not make them at all, Fiat only owns them. Maserati's engines are made by Ferrari, not Fiat. You are confusing ownership with know-how. In their day, Fiat used Ferrari engines in their Dino and Dino Spider coupes. Besides, I am not saying Fiat COULD NOT make a wild say V8 engine, of course they could, but it would most probably not rank among the best of them. Look at their track record with big sedans - they stopped making the last one in 1973, and that one was a flop in terms of sales.
Next mixup - an RR has the same number of parts as a VW golf. Which tells us exactly nothing regarding the quality, tolerances and longevity. The mere suggestion that a €24k car is better made than a €350k car is too ridiculous to ven comment on, and saying that's so because the Golf is better made is outright stupid.
You totaly deny experience as any factor. A company specializing in whatever should reasonably be more in that field than another company specilizing in another field, and vice vesra. I find your arguments truly insulting to engineers since they generally deny experiences in a field. You are saying Amstrad would be capable of producing a top flight tape deck; they would probbly be capable of making it, but I seriously doubt it would ever make top flight. So please, take it somewhere else.
A VERY interesting graph, Richard, thank you.
One is tempted to say that an LP "sounds better" than a CD only because noise masks so much of what the CD potentially lays bare and replaces content with noise.
Unfortunately, you are oh so right, Scott. In my view, it tends to ruin the music by slapping one's eardrums around. Artists like say Joan Baez were never meant to be listened to via amplification.
Looks like a few didn't get what I mean by acoustic - that means zero, I repeat, zero microphones, pro amps, big black speakers, any of that muck - raw, raw sound - no additional crap in the picture - people have a massive hangup with sound reinforcement these days it seems - if more than 5 feet away from an audience they go all twitchy and nervy unless they have a shiny mic in front of them ... and this really, really p!sses me off ...
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