learsfool
Responses from learsfool
| Have you become too jaded with this hobby??? If you are not enjoying the music, your priorities are definitely in the wrong place. | |
| Vinyl lovers I must be crazy You are not crazy. Go back to vinyl, you will really enjoy it just as much as you did before. | |
| Listening distance Dodgealum - thanks for advising someone to trust their ears. WAY too many audiophiles do not do this. For another example, I am constantly amazed at how many people will determine what they are going to spend five or six figures on simply by looki... | |
| My TT "wish list" Second the P5. | |
| Getting Into Analog-Vinyl For The First Time...... Hi Charles - I agree with Viridian and Johnny - the Rega is by far the best table on your list, and I also agree with Johnny that the arm on the P5 makes a big step up from the P3-24, definitely worth the extra money. | |
| Klipsch Heritage Series IME, the Klipsch do have an excellent soundstage. I own Cornwalls, and have heard the Belles and the K-horns. The horns are of course directional, but IMO this actually directs the vast majority of the sound where you want it to go, and therefore ... | |
| Voice. Most powerful and natural instrument. Hi Frogman - as usual, you are correct. Indeed, I have had that experience many times myself with opera. I had been thinking more along the lines of an audience perspective. Even opera voices sometimes have difficulty carrying to the back of the h... | |
| Voice. Most powerful and natural instrument. Hi Kijanki - yes, I do play the French horn. I tried looking up the decibel levels of various instruments quickly, but I would have to dig deep to find it. I know I have it somewhere. Anyway, the actual decibel level possible is not always that re... | |
| Voice. Most powerful and natural instrument. I guess I thought my response was obviously about volume, rather than emotional expression. Of course, the human voice is the most expressive of all instruments, this goes without saying. But as far as sheer power in the sense of volume - not even... | |
| Voice. Most powerful and natural instrument. Natural, yes. Powerful, certainly not. | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi guys - great posts. @Kijanki - thanks for the jitter discussion. And yes, timbres of instruments are extremely complex. It makes for fascinating reading; the book I mentioned before is a great place to start - non-musicians would have no proble... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi guys - Kijanki, you make a very good point about jitter (and explains yet another reason why digital has never sounded as good as analog for me), and the intermodulation distortions. I guess I thought that jitter had more to do with timing, but... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Al - you wrote: "If you are saying that any note produced by any instrument will naturally and invariably contain frequency components of non-zero amplitude at ALL harmonic multiples of the fundamental (lowest) frequency component of the note (... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Al - thanks for weighing in on this. However, I think you are incorrect when you say "Harmonics can, and to some degree inevitably will, be INTRODUCED by the system in the form of distortion products." (My emphasis) Your own examples that follo... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Bryon - perhaps Al can weigh in on this and correct me if I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure harmonics couldn't truly be "added," (they are of course all already present in the timbre) though digital reverb would be an example of an "addition" tha... |