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Dec 20, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? Mrtennis writes:...better is a subjective term...Yes, it is. But it also isn't the subject of this thread. We're talking about neutrality....since there is no known reference in audio as the sound of a recording is completely unknown...If you trul...
Dec 16, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? A while ago Bryon produced some equations. Among them:1. CA = (1/L+N+D). A COMPONENT’S ACCURACY is determined by the amount of loss, noise, and distortion within the component. More specifically, a component's accuracy is INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL to...
Dec 15, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool says: To grossly summarize, our position would be that although colorations exist, this does not mean that neutrality does. We don't believe that there could ever be a piece of audio equipment, let alone an entire system, that has no col...
Dec 15, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? One possibility is that, according to some posters, this thread is "philosophical" and "academic."This is the part I find most puzzling. I realize that there is a certain anti-intellectualism running rampant in certain circles in the US these days...
Dec 13, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? (1) Decreasing entropy = Increasing predictability.(2) Increasing predictability = Increasing coloration.(3) Increasing coloration = Decreasing neutrality......Therefore:(4) Decreasing entropy = Decreasing neutrality......And also:(5) Preservation...
Dec 12, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? Meanwhile, back in the on-topic world, I think I’ve come up with a theoretical explanation for Bryon’s observations. My earlier mention of entropy got me thinking about another kind of entropy: Shannon entropy in information theory. The entropy I ...
Dec 12, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? The appearance of this thread certainly could be evidence of the activity of a troll.LOL! By posting an on-topic discussion on the application of a term that is in common use within the community, he's a troll? Somebody alert the authorities.I tho...
Dec 12, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? Similar to Barnard Malamud's Roy Hobbs in the "The Natural", who tried with futility to hit a hectoring dwarf (troll?) in the grandstands with line drives from his Wonderbat.Many message boards give you the option to put trolls on ignore. It cuts ...
Dec 12, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? Dgarretson writes:It would be particularly interesting to hear from designers of boomy cabinets.Heh.Relating to continuousness, movement toward neutrality implies a more organized presentation. This is an interesting notion. If we consider the sou...
Dec 11, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? I think your approach ultimately is only useful for each individual on his or her own, to come up with his or her own "personal reference point." I don't think there could ever be a generally accepted sense of "neutrality," even as you have refine...
Dec 10, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool writes:It is apparent that there is already disagreement even between the three of you on exactly what is a "coloration" and what is not. Though these differences may be minimized some by further discussion, I don't think they can be eli...
Dec 09, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon writes:I think this is accurate, insofar as I have been ignoring ways that systems can sound different that are NOT attributable to differences in playback colorations. I will call those differences COLORATION-INDEPENDENT CHARACTERISTICS. A ...
Dec 07, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool writes:My position is that there is no such thing as an absence of "coloration" in music and/or music playback and/or an audio component; therefore Bryon's "neutrality" couldn't ever actually exist, even as he defines these terms.You've ...
Dec 06, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool writes:It most certainly does NOT follow that just because I don't believe in neutrality, that therefore I don't believe in coloration! (The same goes for the "neutral room"/ "room coloration" thing). The only way this could possibly be ...
Dec 06, 2009	How do you judge your system's neutrality? The changes in uniqueness/diversity that I noticed were not limited to timbre. They included nearly every aspect of the recordings. Some of those changes are, no doubt, attributable to improved RESOLUTION, but I believe that others are the result ...