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Classical Court From Perotin to Prokofiev (and beyond), performed by Caruso to Khatia, it's all here. |
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In Reply to: So if you're hearing the same kind of edginess at live concerts. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on June 21, 2020 at 13:18:49:
Just a couple of riffs on the topic:
1. Sometimes recordings were purposely made with too much treble energy. Many years ago I was in the cutting room at Decca and the engineer told me that "we always go for a strong treble cut". Of course many vintage Decca recordings are held up as models. It is worth appreciating that typical home cartridges of the 1950s and early 1960s had responses that rolled off pretty swiftly over 10kHz (as did the microphones). A "strong treble cut" may have made sense in that environment. Personally I now find some of my classic Decca widebands a touch too bright played with a modern cartridge. A touch that I can live with given their other magic.
2. Up until recent years I have always found CD players/ DACS unable to properly resolve the sound of mass violins. Solo violin, fine, many violins with all those overtones more difficult. Some could well hear this as excess brightness.
3. Check the treble responses of a selection of speakers tested in Stereophile over the past years. Surprising how many exhibit a treble rise often <5dB or more above the midrange (if that is used as the datum). This is apparently because having an accentuated treble impresses more in a showroom.
4. Most tweeters sound horrid to start with ;-). I remember Billy Woodman of ATC reported as saying that he hated all tweeters. Took him years to develop his own. My personal dislike of a class of speakers are those with a ribbon tweeter/conventional mid/bass where, in the main, the two just do not blend with the tweeter remaining exposed as a separate entity.
5.Most speakers are not made for listening to classical music. it is a minority interest and therefore need not bother the designer of typical speakers overmuch. Too much treble? Gives a nice sting to the sound of that Fender Telecaster and increases excitement. Sells more.
Me cynical?
"We need less, but better" - Dieter Rams
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Follow Ups
- RE: So if you're hearing the same kind of edginess at live concerts. . . - PAR 06:02:40 06/24/20 (3)
- Me cynical? - George6 10:05:45 06/25/20 (0)
- Very interesting! - Chris from Lafayette 10:01:49 06/24/20 (1)
- RE: Very interesting! - PAR 02:34:15 06/25/20 (0)
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