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In Reply to: RE: House Sound posted by Bob Neill on August 24, 2015 at 13:27:46
"There is nothing duller or less engaging than gear without a distinctive voice."
Disagree here..... I think in a lot of cases, a "house sound" can get tiresome over extended periods..... I'm just not big on noticing a "common signature" with different recordings or different types of music.....
Recordings have a "house sound" too..... DMP and Sheffield come to mind.... In moderation a "house sound" is enjoyable.... But I wouldn't spend an entire night listening exclusively to Sheffields, for the same reason above. Even though the recordings are otherwise top notch.
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I agree.
A playback system should be as neutral as possible.
Every recording played should sound different.
There is no reason for them not to.
Different players, different studio, different recording equipment, different mics, different engineer, etc...
A playback system with a "house sound" will diminish the differences in recordings.....and that's a bad thing IMO.
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If you read P.Q prose he actually stresses that very thing . System which differentiate more is a better one.
Of course, as I wrote above, no one in Peter's (or or Andy Grove's or Jean Claude's or Gilbert Yeung's or Peter More's or Miguel Herrero's) position thinks he has a house sound. Their gear has the sound of music as they hear it. And yes, all of these folks design speakers than can distinguish among recordings. And yet they all sound different from one another. Let's not oversimplify this by imagining the most obvious and egregious cases. Lines of gear designed by great designers have distinctive sounds. And yes, unless you have a technocrat's view of the word, they are all accurate in their different ways.
Of course. But in the few best cases, it is the reason we love them.
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