RE: Speakers too revealing?

Posted by Presto (A) on March 16, 2012 at 11:39:54

In Reply to: Speakers too revealing? posted by Raymond Leggs on March 15, 2012 at 16:51:50:

By definition, an "ideal" loudspeaker has razor flat impedance curve and frequency response with perfect polar response. It will behave in accordance to the input waveform with no lag, over-shoot or distortion of any kind, and have a constant group delay and thus add no phase distortion.

If someone heard this "ideal" speaker and called it too revealing, I'd say we need better quality recordings and/or playback gear (usually better recordings) if this ideal speaker made unpleasant music.

In my mind, an "excessively revealing" speaker does not exist. I also believe that the cure for what SEEMS to be an "excessive revealing speaker" is absolutely NOT a "less revealing speaker".

Most speakers these days have pretty good detail retrieval capabilities, unless you're dealing with some very sub-par drivers. FOr me, the best improvements come from better sources, which have better focus on what we philes call "micro-detail". BUT, our beloved microdetail is a double edged sword. Nice micro-details and nice, and bad micro-details are bad.

And you can't have one without the other!! That's the catch-22 of "revealing".

Cheers,
Presto

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Topic - Speakers too revealing? - Raymond Leggs 16:51:50 03/15/12 (19)

RE: Speakers too revealing? - Presto 11:39:54 03/16/12 (0)

RE: Speakers too revealing? - michaelhigh 09:37:54 03/16/12 (0)

No - Jack G 07:00:58 03/16/12 (0)

RE: I see this all the time... - BigguyinATL 06:49:18 03/16/12 (10)

Uh no..... - Sordidman 09:58:56 03/16/12 (9)

RE: Uh no..... - b.l.zeebub 11:04:04 03/16/12 (8)

oy, - being a songwriter... I know all too well - Sordidman 12:23:13 03/16/12 (1)

RE: oy, - being a songwriter... I know all too well - b.l.zeebub 16:27:45 03/16/12 (0)

RE: Uh no..... - Raymond Leggs 11:25:49 03/16/12 (5)

You listen to more electronica than me - Sordidman 12:26:24 03/16/12 (4)

RE: You listen to more electronica than me - b.l.zeebub 16:31:27 03/16/12 (3)

RE: You listen to more electronica than me - jimdgoulding@yahoo.com 01:18:39 03/19/12 (2)

Not too bad sound quality either..... - Sordidman 11:17:38 03/20/12 (0)

RE: You listen to more electronica than me - b.l.zeebub 10:57:15 03/19/12 (0)

Too revealing for what? - E-Stat 06:19:44 03/16/12 (0)

RE: Speakers too revealing? - thebordas 04:47:51 03/16/12 (0)

RE: Speakers too revealing? - Iron Knee 17:52:05 03/15/12 (2)

RE: Speakers too revealing? - jimdgoulding@yahoo.com 18:02:31 03/15/12 (1)

RE: Speakers too revealing? - TedR 17:47:39 03/20/12 (0)

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