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In Reply to: RE: Ok posted by E-Stat on November 15, 2014 at 12:11:03:
The dynamics, particularly the intial attack of a note induced by a strike, a pluck, or blatt, is not the same as the dynamic range of an entire musical piece such as a crenscendo or a complex music passage of many instruments.
Electronics and/or a not very-well-thought-out pb system can more easily cause the initial attack of a note (not the entire note) to sound as though it's in-your-face or inches from your ear. But far less likely to cause a full orchestra to perform in its entirety inches from your ear.
I suspect that some of this may have to do with some types of music being closely mic'ed. Where the mic's diaphram may be inches away from the instrument during the performance and become overly excited by the initial attack of a given note. If so, that gets transferred to the recoridng.
And if so, then it could stand to reason that an amplified gain stage captures most of that recording mic diaphragm's overexcitement and puts it right back in your face at playback time and there's no way around the essentially overamplification of this.
I'm reaching as that's just a guess.
Whatever it is, with a certian combination of variables in a system config, it can actually sound as though your ears are racing to be on the soundstage next to the instruments for the initial attack, but then your ears race back, planted well into the audience for the rest of the music.
I've encountered that very unnatural sound in my system in a big way with high-powered amps and amplified gain stage. Exchanging the active preamp with a passive volume attenuator put all the music back up on the soundstage so that it seemed as though my ears' perspective remained planted in the audience for perhaps 99.9% of all the music. Which to me is far more natural.
As a result, all the dynamics remained but now in a more natural way and with some distance, as everything was now occurring on the soundstage, not in my face.
But again, many things come into play to cause and cure. It's not JUST an amp/preamp combo problem, which is what I think you keep trying to keep this limited to. Try to assume there's more to the vineyard.
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