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RE: A big problem with speakers and bad recordings

Thanks,I will check out those threads.
I will also see if I can get the chance to hear GMA speakers.

Have you heard AN speakers BTW? I'd guess they have much in common with GMA considering the fact that they put great effort in trying to get 2 or more drivers to work as close to one unit as possible,and they are very aware of the importance not to mess with time/phase.

I'm sure NO VS speaker is perfect,and I don't agree with Albert VS or any other if they claim they have found drivers that have no sound of their own,no such thing.I have also seen that Albert claim that the ear isn't too sensitive to timedelays under I think it was 2-3 ms because thats what some german guy once found out ,but I don't agree.I believe the ear/brain is more sensitive than any measuring device we have today,at least we don't yet have that measuring device that gets moved and tingled by the beauty of music! :-)

EVERY PART from the microphone in the studio/concerthall to the air the hifi speaker stands in either add to or subtract from the original signal,usually both.So its all about trying to mess as little as possible with the signal and voicing.I'm sure the best crossover would be no crossover at all,and its pretty easy to hear how much better attack,lack of overhang/ringing and coherency a fullrange driver without crossover have,and also one hear that positive effect with an active crossover before last amplification.All crossovers adds and subracts from the original signal,but I agree that messing with the time/phase domain of the signal is maybe the worst one can do.
But if one is worried about what a crossover does wrong in that area one should really first start to look at the stages before that!!! Oversampling,correction circuits,global feedback,caps in excess ,oooboy ! :-)

The reason I like some VS speakers so much is that they at their best dissapear and I get moved by the music.Live music moves me easy,hifi rarely does it,but its what I'm looking for in hifi gear as well.

If I should make a speaker for my own musical pleasure I would balance/voice it so that all records would make musical sense,and this in my view means a little on the warm/soft side.If one look at 2-3 very good recordings and voice speaker for those to sound fantastic, one usually will stretch the voicing to far IMO,and thats what most "high-end" is about,and this is also what I'm conserned that Albert & Co has done with their top models to impress the show-goers.

Cheers,
Rune


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