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In Reply to: Why Doesn't It Sound Live? posted by crutschow on March 21, 2007 at 10:16:50:
>Until recently it had been a puzzle to me why it was still generally easy to tell the difference between live music and reproduced music,>My take on the difficiencies of current audio reproduction (think of a full orchestra playing):
- Scale (size)
- Movement of air
- Effortless dynamic range
- Resolution of inner detail
- Top to bottom coherence
- Mix of hall ambient sound to direct soundAt best, I'd say a SOTA multi-kilobuck 2 channel system is only about 80% of the way there.
>Although audiophiles often go to great expense (including such snake oil products as magic power cords, HiFi fuses, and exotic cables)>
Don't knock 'em - they work.
> After reading numerous reviews and articles about speakers, and in particular, information on The Audio Critic...>
Read and believe what you want, but TAC is not avery credible source.
>The old Bose 901 Direct/Reflecting speaker dating from 1967 (amazingly still available from Bose) was on the right track,...>
An extremely flawed design.
Let's see - snake oil, TAC and Bose 901 - that's 3 strikes.
>Even if a box speaker reproduces the sound with perfect fidelity, the reflection versus frequency from its radiation pattern in a normal room is atypical of live music and this is readily recognized by the ear-brain as music from a box.>
Perhaps, but the best don't sound 'boxy' and the ambient information picked up by the microphones is alread encoded on the disc so it will be reproduced properly if the speaker, room and equipment don't screw it up.
With only 2 channels, regardless of the speaker design, you may not quite be immersed in ambience the way you experience it in a concert hall, but with a good system and room, it can still be a pretty compelling reproduction.
>It will never really sound like live music.>
It depends on which aspects of live music reproduction are most important to you - ambience in your case - dynamics in mine.
>Of course one can still enjoy such music, as we all do, even without the live music ambience, perhaps by learning to accept (or ignore) the box speaker radiation pattern. It’s a personal preference...>
Exactly. It's all about personal preferences.
>Box speakers RIP.>
Not likely. Different strokes...
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- Where to start, sigh... - mkuller 12:44:47 03/21/07 (0)
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