Speaker Asylum General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

---

[ Follow Ups ] Thread: [ Display  All  Email ] [ Speaker Asylum ]

---

[ Alert Moderator ]

---

It all comes down to your REFERENCE...

Posted by krisjan (R) on March 8, 2007 at 06:27:15

In Reply to: Also not fun posted by StylinLP on March 7, 2007 at 15:01:41:

In my review, I stated explicitly that my reference for judging the sound of the 3A's was reproduction of acoustic instruments. This they do extremely well. What exactly is your reference? It would appear to be a studio recorded album (Dire Straits) that I contend has no possible reference in reality unless you were the person doing the final mixing/mastering of that particular recording and listening on the actual studio monitors where that was done. I am sure you were not that person so there is now way you can know if any speaker sounds true to that recording. After all, what does an electronic keyboard really sound like? Well, that depends on what amp/speakers are used to reproduce it. Same with electric guitars - they can be made to sound like anything you want (I am a performing guitarist/singer - I know this to be fact). There is no absolute reference possible with these types of studio recordings. How do you really know that the Vandersteen's aren't reproducing the Dire Straits album just they way the producer intended? You can't possibly know this.

That said, I will not argue with what you LIKE. But that's an entirely different and subjective situation. Some like their ear candy to sound detailed, some like euphonic, etc. My point in all this is that I believe the only fair way to judge a component is by how it reproduces acoustic instruments recorded in real spaces. That is hard enough to do because of the variety of microphones and techniques used to capture such instruments but at least if one is regularly exposed to live acoutic music, you have some chance of making a fair judgement over a spectrum of such recordings.

Can you see that I am passionate about this topic? OK, off of soap box.
Mark

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:

Kimber Kable

---

[ Top of Page ] [ Contact Us ] [ Support/Wish List ] [ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]

---

[ General ] [ Speakers ] [ Tubes ] [ Vinyl ] [ Digital ] [ Hi-Rez ] [ Video Asylum ] [ Cables ] [ Tweaks/DIY ] [ Music ] [ Films ]

---