In Reply to: RE: Recording technique - microphones and playback systems - Trying to maintain a waveform fidelity. posted by BigguyinATL on August 22, 2014 at 13:54:55:
For about 2 years I tried going back to speakers that were not time coherent and in the end I had to go back to the coherence that does a more thorough job of convincing me of a live event. This is particularly true with good live recordings of which I have several.
I have heard experiments where otherwise decent speakers were made time coherent digitally...without any manipulation of the frequency response and the improvement by making them time coherent was nothing short of stunning. It seems to me that while your brain is cleaning up the mess speakers make it is working awfully hard to do it and this leads ultimately to fatigue and less feeling of real.
It is also in the end I had to come back to single ended amplifiers...I can hear the discontinuity of a push pull amp. Not at first mind you but after living with it for a few months I knew the two I tried had to go and come back to single ended amps (I tried the Einstein "The Absolute Tune" and the VAC Renaissance 30/30...both excellent machines but not as coherent as a good SET).
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