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In Reply to: Neutral audio posted by kerr on February 27, 2007 at 04:52:50:
Andy is one of those guys who is insecure talking about what gear he has heard or uses as his point of reference. Other than, of course, "his education". Yep, I guess those books convey a marvelously deep soundstage!
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Poster KlausR came up with a "perfect" preamp but I've never been able to find anyone in the U.S that sold it. I'm assuming "perfect" means "neutral" in this case. I'm still trying to find even one piece of perfectly neutral audio equipment and I'd like some product names that I can go out and audition.
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...that you be right less often, thereby mitigating some of that hatred. :)
Life is so much more easily understood through Pollyanna's eyes!
That's my cousin you're talking about. ;-)
Pro gear I've owned was fairly neutral tonally, but opaque and dimensionally flat. When your frame of reference is limited, then it is truly difficult to imagine that which is superior.
"Pro gear I've owned was fairly neutral tonally, but opaque and dimensionally flat. When your frame of reference is limited, then it is truly difficult to imagine that which is superior."Neutral here is a total misnomer. This gear is NOT neutral. It is suffering from lots of problems that make it far from neutral (when live unamplified music is the reference). Crossover distortion, resulting in high order harmonics, high negative feedback exaccerbating the problem for example.
One listen to the real thing tells you how woefully unneutral it really is.
I'm not sure what pro gear's original intent was but very few pro's I come in contact with that use the gear will assert that it is the last word in neutrality, resolution or just about anything else. It's cheap, it's reliable, it's powerful and it amplifies. End of story. If someone uses pro gear in a home environment and likes it, that's certainly fine. But as you said, it in no way is representational of live music in my experience.
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