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In Reply to: Re: I really think Jon showed his true colors this time. posted by Steve Eddy on July 29, 2003 at 17:53:38:
The Brooklyn Bridge was an excellent example. I am sure you will agree that the designer of bridge did not sacrify any of the bridge's "required" specification to achieve artistic nirvana. For example, he could have not said that the anchor and its column in the middle of bridge (that support it) does not look good , so it should be removed. so unless he can come up with another scheme to hold up the [middle] weight of the bride, they stay where they are even they look too ugly.The same concept can be applied to audio component design also. You got to achieve minimum requirement for performance (S/N ratio, Distortion and THD, power, bandwidth, etc..) before subjective evaluation even can be mentioned.
For example, if you look at some tube amplifiers, they have excess of 3% THD which mean some of amplifier frequency responses have been hyped up (or down) intentionally. Although the amplifier might sound outstanding on some recordings due to its frequency alteration, but what would happen if by chance we play a recording that have the same exact equalization as the amp do? You will hear double of everything and the recording will probably sound like crap.
So it is always best (and will get most consistent result) if human factor are left out of audio design chain. At least this way, if a recording sound like crap, you can blame it on the artist rather than your system :)
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Follow Ups
- You got to have a good foundation to build on. - Tony Montana 21:34:55 07/29/03 (1)
- Re: You got to have a good foundation to build on. - Steve Eddy 00:06:36 07/30/03 (0)
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