The anwser is no, it does not sound like the real thing.
Even the best system I have heard cannnot reproduce the exact sound of a live performance, something very dissapointing after one spends about $100K on a 2 channel
system.
I once sat down to talk about this subject with a friend of mine who happens to be a very good piano player. He told
me that a piano, or a violin if you like, it's a very complicated instrument. The piano has quite a few chords to
produce certains octaves (frequencies), no speaker can match it sound. There is also the issue of sound dsitribution, is you place a piano player in the middle of a room you can hear the notes as you walk into a circle around it. Speakers(2 channel)will project the sound into a
angle of around 120 degrees, the ideal position between the speakers is just a small area. That is one big constrain that speaker designers have tried to overcome using such designs as "bipolar speakers". Dr. Omar Bose
was on the right track with the 901 design, too bad for the limited response of the full range drivers used.
Another issue is the wide dynamic range of a live performance. I go every week to this jazz place, it's amazing to hear how loud a trumped can sound (no amp assistance). I belive that the founder of Musical Fidelity
once said that you need over a thousand watts and pretty
decent efficiency from your speakers to achive the decibels
of a live performance.
To end my contribution I must say that at the present time
I will just enjoy my prsent system and allocate the money into getting all the cds I can buy rather than trying to
find audio nirvana.
Regards,
Hector Pedrosa
Even the best system I have heard cannnot reproduce the exact sound of a live performance, something very dissapointing after one spends about $100K on a 2 channel
system.
I once sat down to talk about this subject with a friend of mine who happens to be a very good piano player. He told
me that a piano, or a violin if you like, it's a very complicated instrument. The piano has quite a few chords to
produce certains octaves (frequencies), no speaker can match it sound. There is also the issue of sound dsitribution, is you place a piano player in the middle of a room you can hear the notes as you walk into a circle around it. Speakers(2 channel)will project the sound into a
angle of around 120 degrees, the ideal position between the speakers is just a small area. That is one big constrain that speaker designers have tried to overcome using such designs as "bipolar speakers". Dr. Omar Bose
was on the right track with the 901 design, too bad for the limited response of the full range drivers used.
Another issue is the wide dynamic range of a live performance. I go every week to this jazz place, it's amazing to hear how loud a trumped can sound (no amp assistance). I belive that the founder of Musical Fidelity
once said that you need over a thousand watts and pretty
decent efficiency from your speakers to achive the decibels
of a live performance.
To end my contribution I must say that at the present time
I will just enjoy my prsent system and allocate the money into getting all the cds I can buy rather than trying to
find audio nirvana.
Regards,
Hector Pedrosa