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In the Thread: A single worst thing in today’s acoustic systems.
Post Subject: I don't know why everyone has a "wrong" opinion on this, so correct me if I'm wrong.Posted by noviygera on: 11/19/2009
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The answer is dynamic balance. It's objectively easy to prove too. Let's say you are in a room behind a closed door. In the other room is a musician playing an instrument. Even an easier example -- a person talking in the other room. You know that it's for real.
It's not because the imaging is good. Not because the soundstage is good. Not be cause the bass response or HF is good. All that make no difference to the real thing. AND to music reproduction. Imaging, soundstage, HF, midbass, midrange, bass, clearness -- neither is the SINGLE and THE MOST APPALLING quality of today’s high-end audio loudspeakers. Because they have no relationship with reality.
Now let's see what HAS the relationship to reality.
Let's see: behind a closed door, a live instrument, a live sound, a live voice. Let's not SEE, let's HEAR 
We hear definition, attack and decay, we hear timbre, and most importantly we hear a CONTINUOUS EVENNESS in definition, attack and decay, and timbre over the entire freq. range of the sound. Of the voice, of the instrument and music.
That's what makes it real. An EVEN definition from top to bottom. But to state it bluntly I called it dynamic balance. Today’s high-end audio loudspeakers, yesterdays loudspeakers have had this inferiority to REAL sound. The "sharpness", the attack and decay, the "dynamics" are varying with respect to frequency. "Mids are smooth, highs are transparent" what a bunch of BS. It's the evenness of each attack and decay with respect to the attack and decay of every other frequency that the speaker system can reproduce. Another way to put it "transient response" cannot vary with respect to frequency.
That's how you know the voice or instrument behind the door is real.
Herman.
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