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In Reply to: Silly Question: What does "tight" Bass mean to you? posted by "Red" on October 13, 2011 at 09:41:09:
We always had issues controlling the bass. Many stages that we played on in "rock" clubs were constructed on 2X6 or 2X4 and were hollow underneath. Bass would get down there and live, and smell really bad: coming out in strange, and not so welcome ways....
Yes, - sloppy bass, or overly reverberating bass is indeed annoying. But it goes much further than that. There is tonally accurate bass, there is smooth and tuneful bass, there is "tight" bass where the bass does not linger, or where the attack of the note, (or pluck of the string), is heard at the right time, and the note ends at the right time.
At audiophile shows, I usually bring something like Orbital, or some other techno disc. This really tests a system: as opposed to some whitewashed crap like Diana Krull, - who is our audiophile muzak star who has no talent, no creativity, (but good legs), and fairly decent recording. (Give me Madonna any day). While doing nothing, this doesn't test a system in any way. There's no low, fast, bass; to test how well a system is producing it.
In the world of classical music listening, we often find speakers and systems that do a horrible job with bass in order to get it lower. As common, acoustic, orchestral bass instruments do not go nearly as low, or have the body and weight of electronically produced bass. So, to compensate for that, and to warm up things like scratchy violins in the mids, the system designers overly compensate by manipulating the mid range, and lower range, to add more weight and low end to instruments that are lacking. Sadly, this often leads to tonal inaccuracies in other genri of music.
A speaker, system manufacturer gets EXACTLY the tonal balance, and spectrum balance that they want, for their customers. So if you agree with your manufacturer's idiosyncratic viewpoint, and their general music likes and dislikes, - you will be more inclined to follow along their path. I enjoy going to their rooms, and to their shows, with my John Digweed discs, and watch them freak out, running desperately for the volume knob...
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
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Follow Ups
- Coming from a two bass player rock "group" - Sordidman 10:00:37 10/13/11 (2)
- sordy, i have to take issue here - hifitommy 19:26:19 10/13/11 (1)
- I was just throwing benzene on the fire - Sordidman 09:01:56 10/14/11 (0)
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