bryoncunningham
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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Mrtennis wrote:regarding neutrality, without a reference it is impossible to judge neutrality, accuracy or transparency.when a recording is considered a reference for assessing the neutrality of a stereo system, the reference, either a live sound ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool - Sorry for the late reply. I've been traveling for the holiday.To share with you the reasons for the questions I asked you in my previous post:RE: (1) Do you believe that colorations can be either increased or decreased?This was a way o... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool wrote:I believe that colorations are ALWAYS present, and that an absence of them is not possible in music reproduction.Learsfool - I understand that you believe that colorations are always present in music reproduction. About this point ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Cbw – Those are excellent observations. Taking them one at a time…(1) RE: Component Accuracy, expressed as CA = 1/L+N=D,* Cbw wrote:...your intent to have all component accuracy be inversely proportional to all three of loss, noise, and distortion... | |
| Alternative Speaker Suggestions Wanted Joe - I'm using a computer based source. Basically, iMac -> Sonos -> Empirical Audio reclocker -> Meridian G68. It was the addition of the reclocker that may the difference, in my setup, between shrill and smooth high frequency response. ... | |
| Alternative Speaker Suggestions Wanted It's interesting that you mention Vienna Acoustics "The Music," because they were another one of my other favorite sounds at that CES. We seem to have similar tastes.Which brings me back the the Focals. Regarding the beryllium tweeter, I too have ... | |
| matching center channel to mains/rears I agree with the prevailing wisdom so far that matching your center to your mains is ideal. Having said that, my center does not match my mains, and it has not bothered me at all. I think part of the reason for that is that, as a generalization, t... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Newbee, Dgarretson, Al, and Cbw – Thank you all for your comments regarding this thread. As is no doubt obvious, it has been a valuable experience for me. It has helped clarify and develop my views on a wide range of ideas that have occupied space... | |
| Alternative Speaker Suggestions Wanted I too heard the Burmester's B80's at the last CES. Like you, I thought it was one of the best sounds at the show. If I were a rich man, I would have bought them without a second thought. I have also heard the B100, and was similarly impressed.In a... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? I would like to say a few words, not the detractors of neutrality, but to the detractors of this thread. A number of posters have questioned the value of these discussions. Some have expressed their doubts with arguments, others with jokes, and a ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool – Although it is hazardous to argue by proxy, I will do my best to respond to your brother’s comments.To begin with, your brother suggested that I was guilty of the REIFICATION, which you define as “treating an abstract concept as if it ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool – I appreciate your thanks and I’m grateful for your participation. Though our points of view never converged, I learned a lot from our debate along the way. Your final comments about training the ear, which I think of as training the br... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool wrote:This has been discussed in a different thread before, the idea that many audiophiles assume that some "colorations" they are hearing are caused by their system, when in fact they are on the recording itself. I have seen more than o... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? A little while back, Al suggested substituting another term, such as ‘accuracy,’ for the term ‘neutrality.’ More recently, Cbw mentioned that, when reading my posts, he tends to substitute the term ‘distortion’ for ‘coloration.’ And Learsfool has ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Dgarretson – Thanks for clarifying your view on “embodiment.” It is a fascinating topic in its own right. I agree with you that a taxonomy of colorations would be very useful in these discussions. I will spend some time thinking about possible tax... |