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A lot to digest in this article, and no doubt there will be objections from the purist, straight-wire-with-gain, neutrality-uber-alles faction. Srajan says it best when he states:This concept is far from novel. It's standard MO in the pro world where active bi-amping is a feature of many monitors to begin with. It simply hasn't caught on with the fundamentalists of hifi. Those remain dominated by puritanical notions of an absolute sound that is a fixed though abstract standard. Simply put, the recorded music we listen to has been doctored endlessly at the mastering console. That's a fancy name for nothing but a very complex equalizer. With recordings helmed by different engineers in studios around the globe, a rigidly fixed playback system with a single voicing is bound to fail.
A very good article, with a lot of food for thought.
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Naturally-recorded classical music, jazz and bluegrass are the BEST!
-or back to the 70s :)Seriously though, just because a mixer is used on the recording side does not mean the signal has been 'doctored endlessly'! Having been in a fair number of recording situations, I have been impressed by how often a good engineer wants to get things right- by avoiding processing. That is why almost all recording consoles offer 'direct outs' so that extra circuitry can be bypassed altogether.
....but that presumes a "good" engineer. As you know well, recordings are fraught with inconsistencies, polarity issues, mastering problems, and we further have various problems with the physical media itself. The issues are endless. The article points to solutions for each individual system and room acoustic....back to the 70's, indeed, but with even higher quality.
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