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Romy the Cat
Boston, MA
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Joined on 05-28-2004
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fiogf49gjkf0d Yesterday a local audio guy came over and I played to him my Altec 19 in the finally cleared fireplace room. While he enjoyed his frumpy music I paid attention to how unintelligent sound was. I do not know if it was Altec 19 or the electronics that drove it but it was very brainless sound. It was very dynamic and very articulate but the dynamics and accumulation was very foolish, with no connectively to tone, to the tempo, to harmonics and to rest of music being played. The audio people LOVE that Sound. They pay millions for it as that sound “impresses” them. They love high dynamics and they have no cultural understanding of Sound to comprehend that dynamic is not self-centered goal but just one of many expressive tools in the long way to accomplish something larger and more important.
Anyhow, then I took the same jazz CD and plays it via Macondo and look how Macondo/Melquiades would manage the same dynamics. It was very interesting. Macondo had completely overridden the dynamics of the enter presentation. I did not feel that it was less dynamic but this time the dynamics was released what I call intelligently. When it was necessary it was very dynamic, what it was necessary it was very luxuriant and liquid.
I wish audio people understand the subject of dynamic management of playback. This subject never was enunciated anywhere and this is very unfortunate. The caT
"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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