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RE: A big problem with speakers and bad recordings

Posted by Todd B. (A) on November 27, 2007 at 23:54:28

In Reply to: RE: A big problem with speakers and bad recordings posted by Rune on November 26, 2007 at 01:24:53:

It sounds like you're already familiar with the issues of coherency. You're fortunate, because this was all news to me. I have not heard any AN speakers, or any VS speakers for that matter. I hadn't even heard a coherent speaker in a hi-rez system until I got the Europas. What's funny, though, is once I heard the Europas play, I immediately recognized "that" sound as one I had heard from a number of single-driver lower-rez speakers, but hadn't realized was the sound of coherence. I always knew there was something about the sound of my boombox and computer speakers that I really liked, I just didn't know what it was until the Europas explained it for me, LOL.

And no doubt there are other areas of the recording/playback chain which can mangle the timbre of a signal, but the idea of a speaker blatantly changing the timing and harmonic structure of the sounds it's reproducing really gets to me, now that I've heard what it sounds like when that doesn't happen. Given how much time it can take to build a resonant filter envelope in a synth so that it does what you want when you want, or how hard it is to play a distorted electric guitar purposely and repeatably sloppy so that it throws off more harmonics, to consider that the crossover in a conventional playback speaker is then going to come along and alter that work?!?!?! It's just insulting. I mean, really, WTF?

If you can't find GMA in Norway, maybe you'll be able to find other speakers for sale there which use 1st-order crossovers. I know Dynaudio does, at least on some of their models, and of course Vandersteen and Thiel.

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Edits: 11/27/07

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