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In Reply to: A list of sonic properties "un-measurable" (or, not easily measured)? posted by genungo on July 28, 2014 at 20:15:20:
"Linearity"..... The ability to sustain delicate textures in the presence of heavy bass energy....
When it's good, you just hear everything, regardless of dynamics or bottom end energy. When it's bad, the music "shouts" or "blasts" during loud passages. When it's awful, the bass takes the rest of the music with it.
(Untrained listening often mistakes poor linearity for "incredible dynamics". Where the blasting makes the music seem "more dynamic" than it actually is. This was the one thing I learned the hard way, after experiencing live music, realizing "dynamics" was not what I thought it was.)
IMO, one of the most difficult things to get right in two channel audio.... Yet one of the most important things as well.
A couple good acid tracks for this is Fourplay's "Bali Run" and the Telarc Tchaikovsky "Romeo and Juliet" with Maazel and Cleveland.... The first track, the snare drum should never "jump out at you".... It should sound independent from the rest of the performers. The second track, with the bass drum during the loud passages, you should still hear the strings the same way as you'd hear them by themselves. If the strings become obscured in a puree of sound, the playback/system is not quite there.
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- My Favorite Is.... - Todd Krieger 21:09:46 07/28/14 (4)
- Resolving power? (nt - genungo 08:34:54 07/29/14 (1)
- RE: Resolving power? (nt - Todd Krieger 17:13:05 07/29/14 (0)
- RE: My Favorite Is.... - Tony Lauck 08:15:56 07/29/14 (0)
- Or Playback Level is too high. nt - oldmkvi 21:39:44 07/28/14 (0)
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