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In Reply to: RE: BBC speakers have "...personalities within the overall personality." ? posted by Bob Neill on April 06, 2014 at 10:45:50
Can you think of a loudspeaker that seems to have little or no "personality"?
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Not really. I think some speakers that strive conspicuously for neutrality end up having a signature we can also identify. What I hear from these speakers is the sound of cowardice: a lack of identifiable defects rather than virtues. And that is definitely not what we hear in the concert hall or jazz club. Don't get me naming names here because I'm really not permitted to express that kind of opinion here. And they know who they are. Let's just say that the sound of "neutrality" in audio is a sound. When someone says a speaker sounds boring, that's what they're hearing.
This subject deserves a lot more than I can give it, especially on the technical side.
I cant think of any more noble a pursuit for a speaker manufacturer than neutrality. Please explain to me how a speaker that isnt neutral can do more justice to halls or clubs than one that is? Problem is that most speakers are so colored or have so many other difficulties that the audio public cant handle a more neutral presentation without thinking of it as deficient.
"I cant think of any more noble a pursuit for a speaker manufacturer than neutrality."
Noble is the word. Nobility is good stuff.
"Please explain to me how a speaker that isn't neutral can do more justice to halls or clubs than one that is?"
I can't.
"Problem is that most speakers are so colored or have so many other difficulties that the audio public cant handle a more neutral presentation without thinking of it as deficient."
I agree that "the public" is accustomed to a colored presentation. I think that if they heard a genuinely neutral (transparent, realistic, objective) presentation, they would initially be put off but that they'd come around eventually. Of course part of it is that most people don't really want that. They want something that sounds attractive (their standard of that) all of the time. I may not 'approve' of such sinful behavior but I understand it, sometimes practice it myself...
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It's a punishment for trying to be god. It's Audio's version of falling into the Icarian Sea and so yes, ironic rather than tragic since the result is boredom. We've always known that the truest line to where we're all going is a curve, not a straight line.
This whole conversation leaves out speakers which sound aggressively bad, whatever their priorities, of course. Bad is worse than boring, I guess we can agree on that -- at least in audio.
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