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In Reply to: A couple more thoughts on "voicing" and "personality" posted by Brian H P on August 18, 2015 at 11:30:31:
1,000 Hz is a funny neighborhood...
If the recording you are listening to is of a baritone singing Schumann's "Dichterliebe," there's one song with an unaccompanied prologue, "Ich hab im' Traum geweinet."
The first five notes are B-flats at circa 474 Hz, and being low male voice, the overtones are weak. If you were to EQ that phrase with a narrow 6dB peak circa 1,000 Hz, I rather doubt it would sound shockingly different at the listening position.
Whereas 1,000 Hz is near the fundamental of the first notes of the violin solo part of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (B = 987 Hz), and a peak up there may at the listening position just seem that the soloist's mic (or mics) was goosed up in the mix somewhat.
(I say "up there" because even though 1kHz is below almost all applicable crossover frequencies, I do not consider it "midrange" but rather, looking at a piano keyboard, it is treble. Are the any music listeners who think that he opening of the solo part of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto does not take place in the treble region?)
So, I will continue to state that in its price range, I think that the Wilson Benesch Square One is a very respectable contender with much to recommend it--at least from the listening chair.
But most people already know that, as previously mentioned, I have loved the sound of Shahianian's larger speakers; but in the interest of alerting the unwary, I did go so far as to call their sound "wide-screen" and "Technicolor."
At the end of the day I think this is another case of Horses for Courses (please follow the link below, as it is one of my best all-time efforts), and that the most important thing is that no French people were harmed in the making of my column.
ATB,
JM
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- Good post; thanks. - John Marks 13:53:07 08/18/15 (0)
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