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Without any science luddites here (i.e., those who focus...

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Posted by Dave VH on March 28, 1999 at 16:22:05

In Reply to: Interesting reading.............................. posted by Sherwood on March 28, 1999 at 15:24:38:

on saying what's impossible, as opposed to those whose curiosity leads to investigations of possiblities), it's nice to be able to discuss these things without ridicule.

I've seen information on ultra-high music sounds before, and have always believed that frequencies above ear-phone audiometry testing can affect what we hear.

That's why, even as age reduces my high-frequency direct hearing, I still want an audio system with reasonably flat response to 20KHz or more. It would be interesting to see what various types of HF drivers (domes, electrostatics, ribbons, ion gas, etc.) do with any ultra HF harmonics on well recorded 24/96 discs.

Another sound quality that seldom gets investigated is the "ease" of sound that Jack G. likes so much in his Galante Buckinghams. I remember that same wonderful unforced quality from horns and big, efficient bass-reflex systems from many years ago, although those systemms had other serious flaws by today's standards. Many closed-box systems with SS amps sound "constipated" to me, as if the music really has to struggle to get out unless many hundreds of watts are behind it.

Dave VH

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