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RE: Von Schweikerts higher models on "bad recordings" ..... ?

Posted by Rune (A) on November 25, 2007 at 08:33:41

In Reply to: RE: Von Schweikerts higher models on "bad recordings" ..... ? posted by Quint on November 25, 2007 at 06:49:11:

Thanks alot for sharing Quint! Highly appreciate it!

It was the 4genIII HSE that I had as well,and I have good memories of that speaker!
What would be very interesting for me is if you try to give a description of differences between the 4IIIHSE and VR9,and especially which one you think is most enjoyable musically with "harsh" and "bad recordings" ?

Just a little step aside and some of my thoughts around hifi in general.I write bad with the "" because nobody knows how records REALLY should sound unless they heard it on perfect equipment,and since that doesn't exsist......? ....
Today one can take a Deep Purple record from 70s and put it on a Wadia/Krell/Wilson (just to take some examples;-) ) and it usually doesn't sound to joyful and we would say the recording is flawed and "sound bad".Take the same recording on a good 70s hifi set-up,and the boys can play so that one have to take down the air-guitar and boogie along,and that would mean the record is good! :-) . It isn't that one set-up is perfect and the other is not.The "high-end" defender would maybe say that 70s sound were very coloured and we have moved forward.OK,I agree some things have moved forward,but far from everything.Ask the best sound engineers thats been around for awhile whats consider some of the best microphones .What era where those made.Almost everybody that has heard good NOS tubes consider them clearly more clean and natural sounding than newer productions.Some of the most natural sounding recordings ever made were made in the 50s-60s.Listen to the midrange in a set-up with the best cinema speakers from the 30s with a simple SET amp,NO WAY a modern "high-end" set-up with transistor amps sound more real than that.........
Look at what for example Audio Note does in their best equipment,the amps are in most ways copies of the 30-40s design......
I don't mean that everything was better before,but certainly somethings were,IMHO.

Back to you Quint;-)
Another thing since you know the VR5( SE ? ),do you feel the bass is easier to drive in that one than the 4IIIHSE?

Coherency is also an area I consider extremely important for naturalness.Do you feel the VR4 or VR5 sounds more coherent than the VR9 did?

Thanks and good luck to you as well! I wish you good health!

Cheers,
Rune

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