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RE: what is your most shocking wikileakesque revelations about the audio industry in the last 3 years?

"As to rolling off the highs, well, I don't have an answer for that, but my personal inclination is to go for something that serves the main body of recordings, which, after all, are most of what I listen to. But I'd rather do it in EQ than in the speakers. There was a time when EQ circuits could be sonically deleterious, but once you've made the transition to all digital as I have you can use digital EQ, which can actually do a better job of correcting tonal balance than a speaker can and can be adjusted to accommodate various recordings and scenarios (stereo vs. multichannel, small hall vs. large one, live room vs. dead one, etc.)."

I don't have the skills or experience to accurately eq playback - surely some do and some don't but think they do. That's all good and tasty stuff but until the recording contains information on how these adjustments are supposed to be made all bets are off. With feedback we can compare the media content to what is arriving at the listeners ears and make adjustments as needed to correct for system (including room) influences. If we knew more about the content of each channel we could do more with it in fact we could do best fits for the actual playback environment and optimize the results to get the best performance based on x number of speakers and how they are configured in the playback space - all of that based on recorded content!

I think another benefit of digital is that the "quality" of playback gear, at least the non-digital parts, is going to become less important. Of course robustness will be key but such gear may sound dreadful in a non-digital system but put it into a feedback based system configured on the parameters of the recording and it will really shine.

But for now my main rigs are going to remain minamalist and mostly analog - save for CDP and tuners. I am currently importing CDs and LPs onto a harddrive and have been converting my portables and car stereos to source from the iPod and we (my wife and I) are going to put in a new video system in the living room as part of our home remodelling. That system is likely to contain a dedicated music server so I will have a purely digital based system soon!

But until the format gives us more information I'm going to let the pros adjust the eq's and let myself continue to make adjustment by careful selection of gear.




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