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"there are no good resonances" (Long but important)

Actually you are both right and wrong.

If you have a stylus in a groove it is resonating and its resonance adds to whatever is in the groove. Look further down the chain. Your cartridge engine is resonating. The cartridge body is resonating. The headshell and tonearm is resonating. The platter is resonating. Even the electrical signal resonates.

Now look at the damn speakers. These things are creating and reflecting a whole different issues regarding resonance. Your entire system is pressurizing a room and the room creates some really fascinating resonance.

You simply cannot eliminate resonance in any electronic audio reproduction event. Nor can you eliminate resonance in the live musical event or the processes used to capture the event to the media of your choice. Even the microphone resonates!

How we manage resonance is absolutely critical to getting a life like sound reproduction.

Managing resonance is not a simple matter just as Mosin describes. We have to first reduce resonance to the lowest point of intrusion and then manage the resonance so it does the least harm to the music.

Some manufacturer's have this really nailed. Some are attrocious. System matching is hugely responsible for managing good and bad resonance.

Even my Viola when perfectly played will exhibit good and bad resonance. The result is music and the music is natural. Where I stand on the stage will determine how my Viola sounds to the audience. So even the live music event incorporates resonance management issues. If the Viola is not resonating there is no music. Eliminating all resonance...what is the fun of that?


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