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In Reply to: frequency response curve posted by tmsorosk on August 15, 2012 at 17:28:37:
I think Tony's point is that frequency response depends on the entire chain, from microphone location to the listener's seat. If recordings were neutral and listening rooms were neutral, this wouldn't be an issue -- the speaker that had ruler-flat frequency response and perfect polar response would sound neutral. But in practice this doesn't happen, for many reasons. Even a good two-channel cardioid recording made in a good concert hall requires a playback target curve with a 2-6 dB downslope, largely I think because the microphones capture too much of the direct sound and not enough of the hall ambiance, with its attenuated highs. To make matters worse, this isn't true of small ensemble works recorded in small spaces. It becomes impossible to make a speaker "right." J. Gordon Holt wrote some excellent articles on this that are up on the Stereophile site.
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