|
Tweakers' Asylum Tweaks for systems, rooms and Do It Yourself (DIY) help. FAQ. |
|
|
|
Tweakers' Asylum Tweaks for systems, rooms and Do It Yourself (DIY) help. FAQ. |
|
In Reply to: Re: May I correct your arguments on your incorrect assumption. posted by David Aiken on March 14, 2007 at 14:14:45:
Hi.It seems to be we are talking 'eye-to-eye'.
Yes, I am a man sticking to routines. Everyday's routines is my bread-&-butter businesses, household works to help out my wife, DIY bench works & Hifi listening if time permits. Likewise, my choice of seat in a concert hall.
Of course, for small chamber musics, I would prefer to be 4th row centre.
I agree with you 100% - use live acoustical performance as the yardstick for any HiFi. But the facts of life is there is seldom any more pure acoustic performances available. Most most of them are now PA enforced. That is the very reason why I choose to sit closer to the stage of a concert so that the masking effect of the PA can be minimized.
That said, live acoustical performance do exist - handily at no cost!
Where? Sunday morning church service. There we can enjoy vocal choirs
with or without piano & live instrument accompanyment.I am not religious despite my wife, & my two sons are. I only knew this when I attended my son's piano tutor's weddng in a small chapel many years back. There was a 8 member small choir delivering what I called it music from the heaven above. So real, so live & yet so tranquil. Only a piano, no PA.
Every boils down to its phyics. If an loudspeaker manufacturer specifies something not in line of the acoutic basic phyiscs. Why not try a different way & listen and/or measure the difference. See which way could be better.
When a blockade stand is recommanded for a loudspeaker, to me it is somewhat not in line of physics. Either the design needed a blockade stand to flatten up its frequency response, or for whatever reasons.
But as your said, room acoustics can have a better say than manufacturer's specification. Why not try it out & compare?When I found my KEF 2-way bookshelf loudspeakers did not sound right - ringing like hell due to its metallic dome tweeter (despite it was used to build BBC monitors). I replaced its tweeter with a Norway SEAS 1.5" soft fabric dome tweeter. I also rebuit its mikey mouse type X-over network to a discrete bi-wired network with large PP film capacitors.
It sounds so much better like a wholly resurrection. You believe every word the manufacfurer tells you? I don't until I test it.
c-J
PS: sorry to know you miss your wife's piano playing.
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- Glad to be engaged in decent audio discussions with you. - cheap-Jack 09:04:44 03/15/07 (1)
- Re: Glad to be engaged in decent audio discussions with you. - David Aiken 17:14:29 03/15/07 (0)
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
