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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: RE: So if you're hearing the same kind of edginess at live concerts. . . posted by PAR on June 24, 2020 at 06:02:40:
As to your first point about cartridges from the 50's and 60's having rolled off high-frequency response, I agree, although some cartridges had some pretty noticeable peaks above 10kHz too.
Regarding the sound of massed violins on CD's, I've always felt that that was more a product of the prevailing primitive multi-microphoning done by the major companies of that time. In addition, many of the CD reissues early on were cavalierly managed in the rush to get titles out into the market. My opinion is that, even from the very beginning, there were SOME recordings on CD (and CD players) which dealt well with massed violins - so the negative perceptions had to be caused by other things. (Although I have to say that I've never been very familiar with THAT many CD players on the market at any given time.)
I remember when I was very young in Southern California, stereo was just catching on and my dad was getting his/our very first hi-fi system, he wanted to consult with my piano teacher, who had a big JBL speaker in his mono system. My teacher said that he liked JBL's because they had a "hard, quick, fast" sound, and, sure enough, we ended up with a pair of JBL's ourselves. Later on, when I was reading the hi-fi "pundits" of the day, I discovered that they considered the JBL (or "West Coast") sound more suitable for rock and pop, while classical music would be better served by a more covered (or less "in your face") "East Sound" sound, exemplified by speakers such as those from Acoustic Research. Since the JBL's were my "imprint" speakers, I somehow have always preferred that type of sound, even for classical music, and today, my current speakers have ribbon tweeters and ribbon midranges together with conventional 12" woofers (which BTW crossover at an unusually low Frequency - between 200 and 300 Hz).
As I mentioned before, in my case, the main determinant as to whether I perceive an edgy or bright sound from a given recording on a given system is the the presence (or not!) of an extended bass response.
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Follow Ups
- 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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