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In Reply to: Went through the same thing about a year ago posted by Jeffm on April 28, 2006 at 10:57:24:
Forgive me for being pedantic, but because I fault a lot of current gear for lacking musicality, I'll add my two cents on this question: Personally, I don't see that presence, transparency and dynamics have a lot to do with musicality. Presence means the illusion of a live performance; transparency means clarity; dynamics means loudness or sudden contrasts of loudness as with cymbal crashes, bass drum whacks, etc. Musicality means that the music "gets over" -- you find yourself remembering the tune, humming it, wanting to hear it even on a crummy system just because you like the melody, harmony, rhythm. Some table radios have it and some expensive rigs don't. Not that I am recommending a table radio -- but there is some very expensive equipment that sounds pallid. British critic Geoffrey Horne used to rag on polypropylene cones, for example -- he said they made Alfred Brendel sound like he was playing a 'plonky village upright'. To my ears, some Bextrene cones are 'rubbery' sounding. And some metal cones sound metallic. This won't come out in frequency response graphs, and it doesn't relate directly to presence, transparency or dynamics (it may enhance dynamics -- that's one reason the manufacturers are into plastic cones.) But to some people it is audible, just like the difference between tubes and transistors.
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Follow Ups
- What musicality? - peterh 14:34:05 04/28/06 (4)
- Points well made . . . a better definition: Gestault - Jeffm 17:49:45 04/28/06 (3)
- Re: Points well made . . . a better definition: Gestault - Frank25 15:12:46 04/29/06 (2)
- Enjoyment - Jeffm 18:05:09 04/29/06 (1)
- Re: Enjoyment - Frank25 09:14:56 05/02/06 (0)
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