cbw723
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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon attributes the improvements to 'neutrality' and I think that is where we start to go different paths. I think it would be more accurate to characterize Bryon as attributing certain kinds of improvements to neutrality, and that those improvem... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon, I have some more thoughts on the "excess contrast" issue, but in thinking about it, I realized there were some holes in my understanding of the operationalization (is that a word?) itself:1) In the original post, you mention instrument timb... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? If the settings of an equalizer are changed from Setting A to Setting B, as I see it that amounts to a change in the system, which should be evaluated similarly to how substitution of one component for another component would be evaluated.I agree ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? I think Bryon and Almarg addressed most of Learsfool's comments, but I'd like to add something on this point: To be clear, I am not suggesting that room correction is worthless, indeed these systems can make a big difference; I just wonder - how d... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? If one were to wear yellow glasses while skiing during an overcast day, visual improvement in the snow's light and dark shadow detail would be apparent. Those same glasses on a bright day would not be beneficial... The improvements in your system... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? With water, although all sources are indeed contaminated, we can identify the definite impurities, and there is no debate on the subject, because science call tell us what truly pure water would be like.Actually, I think the water analogy is prett... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? The more technical improvements poured into each down unrelated analog & digital paths, the closer they converge on the same sound. And this convergence may be as good a demonstration of neutrality as any other.This idea is fascinating. You m... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? "The word 'unique' as you have used in your original post, is absolute, it cannot be (should not be) modified further by using terms like less or more as is so commonly done."This is simply no longer true. Traditionalist grammarians didn't like it... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? I like this definition, but what about imaging? Couldn't a system have a high degree of both neutrality and resolution, but have fuzzy image focus? That would tend to disrupt the impression of a live event or a well-integrated studio recording, an... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Kijanki wrote: "no I would not adjust sound for individual songs but rather pick affordable system that sounds best to me on average with the type of music I listen to."Affordable? What does affordable have to do with anything? I thought this was ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Kijanki wrote:"Well - I'm my own playback engineer and I choose the sound I like."I think most of us do this to some extent, since we put a fair amount of effort into modifying our system and keep the changes that we think make things sound better... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Kijanki writes:"Would "neutral" system sound the same to young Hindu and old Latino?"No, it would sound different to every person that listened to it, but that's not the point. The point is whether or not it recreates their version of reality, and... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Newbee, there's a lot to be objective about. In GET BETTER SOUND, Jim Smith makes a case (tip #171) that the "personal taste" argument is flawed. He argues that if there were perfect speakers, almost everyone would prefer them. In fact, his whole ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? While this discussion is interesting, I think it is getting a bit off track. If I may presume to reinterpret Bryon's question, I don't think he cares whether the word is "neutrality" or "transparency" or "coloration" or how, exactly, one defines t... |