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In the Thread: About the Critical Audio Tune ™

Post Subject: 'Loose cannon' sound...Posted by Axel on: 8/30/2009

is what I have called it, and what I hear you are describing? I wonder for how long you will be OK with it.
We have had this effect by using 1st order crossover with absolute minimal insertion loss, so you would now listing to uncorrected drivers in 'full beauty' of their idiosyncratic artefacts.
It can be initially exiting to drive with no 'breaks', but the longer you listen the more you will know that something is not 'right'. It is a trade off, total 'openness', hearing EVERYTHING --- and a lot of this 'everything' is not part of the recorded 'intention' i.e. driver artefacts and it will impart this on ALL that you are listening to.
Like putting salt even into you tea or coffee (some like it though).

It is of course also true, that artefacts of resistors, capacitors, inductors and their cores of each correction circuit duly add their one 'dulling' effect to the signal.
Enjoy it while it lasts,
Axel

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