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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon: My operationalization of neutralty is a method for judging the coloration/neutrality of a system that DOES NOT REQUIRE YOU TO KNOW WHAT THE RECORDING IS SUPPOSED TO SOUND LIKE. It only requires you to make judgments about changes in CONTRAS... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? There is no such thing as the absence of color in sound (and therefore, it logically follows, in sound reproduction). Otherwise music could not exist. The things you are specifically describing as "colorations" (intermodulation distortion, etc.) o... | |
| Advice on RFI with a new integrated amp Hi Marty,Can you describe the sound of the "rfi." If it is just high frequency hiss, audible only within 6 inches of the speaker, it certainly may be normal and would not be uncommon. It could be low level noise intrinsically generated in the powe... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learfool 12/24: The bottom line here (going back to the OP) is that many of us feel that just because you change one piece of equipment in the system, making 1) individual pieces of music sound more unique, and 2) your music collection sound more ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? The same argument can be made for inter-recording contrast as I've just made here for intra-recording contrast by using recording-specific EQ.That's the point that I'm questioning. Let's say that you have two recordings, and you play them back wit... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? A thought on the dilemma concerning increasing the degree of contrast between recordings via equalization, which Cbw723 attempted to address with some creative mathematics in his last post.I believe it is really a non-issue. If the settings of an ... | |
| Sub blowing Christmas lights? Jim, the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes once remarked something to the effect that when you've ruled out everything else, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the explanation :)In this case the only explanations that see... | |
| XLR waste of time ? Ralph, thanks for the comprehensive and excellent summary. In your list of "actual as opposed to theoretical" advantages of balanced operation, my feeling is that reduced likelihood of ground-loop issues is another advantage that merits explicit m... | |
| Sub blowing Christmas lights? That's a logical question, Paulsax, but I can't envision how either a missing ground or a miswired outlet could cause something like this. No matter how the outlet were miswired or ungrounded it would seem that no more than the normal 120V or so l... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon: THE SYSTEM = THE EQUIPMENT + THE ROOMExactly, at least in the context in which we have been discussing it. I explicitly made the same point in my post yesterday:Almarg: Perhaps that distinction can be further refined if we say that accuracy... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? (i) The target of the concept of ‘accuracy’ is the RECORDING, whereas the target of the concept of ‘transparency’ is the MUSICAL EVENT that the recording represents.(ii) In some cases, sacrificing some accuracy (to the recording) may increase tran... | |
| Sub blowing Christmas lights? The Sub power supply is sloppy and the fluctuating power needs of the sub are messing up the voltage in the A/C supply. The mains are being drawn down and bouncing way over the standard voltage by the sub.I think that you may very well be pointing... | |
| Loudness War Hi Vaughan,Sony Sound Forge Pro, at U.S. $337, is a Windows-based professional audio editing program that includes what they call a Graphic Dynamics function. It can perform dynamic range expansion with essentially every parameter adjustable by th... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon, that all strikes me as brilliantly conceived and brilliantly expressed!And I agree just about completely. The one thing I would add concerns the discussion at the end of your post about the relationship between transparency and accuracy. I ... | |
| Jolida integrated with remote and pre-outs? Realremo -- The issues I cited apply only to high-passing at speaker level through a passive high-pass filter (which most subs do NOT do). The high-pass filters that many subs have, which output line-level signals via rca connectors, do not have a... |