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In Reply to: RE: And I believe they do like! posted by tomservo on May 07, 2009 at 08:57:21
:"You will find it ironic that as simple as it may seem, i am not aware of any loudspeaker at any cost which can do anything like exactly reproduce what it is told. "I agree. However that being said, reasonable priced loudspeakers meet the same frequency specifications as more esoteric and much more costly loudspeakers.
"You will find it ironic that as simple as it may seem, i am not aware of any loudspeaker at any cost which can do anything like exactly reproduce what it is told. "
I agree. The irony is that expensive gear in general meets the same specifications as moderately priced gear. What this means to me is that we are paying a premium for subjective take and I accept this without any problems.
"It is the fact that essentially none can do this, that it makes an ideal target for refinement as opposed to chasing subjectively pleasant coloration which nearly always will also sound worse with other choices of program material."
I agree to a degree but let me try to split a hair to show my disagreement -
I hate to hear "subjective pleasant" denigrated in the way you have done in your comment. Given that general speaking spec's don't improve with more costly gear, and my belief we are paying for subjective take, I find such denigration somewhat senseless and in fact most convenient for justifying bad sounding more costly audio systems. In my experiences some degree of coloration does not guarantee alienation program material and some degree of coloration may actually be desireable given the nature of real world recordings.
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