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Post Subject: Causes, Effects, and Degrees of SeparationPosted by Paul S on: 8/6/2011
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Perhaps to bring some perspective: As Romy obviously suspects, the stock drivers I have been experimenting with are in the low-mid 90s, in terms of efficiency, although alterations include raising efficiency - somewhat. And yes, this introduces its own set of problems. As ever. No Free Lunch. As for the particular Lunches we do settle (and pay) for...
Around here, we often bandy the term "psycho-acoustic", and I think it is valid to understand the effects of sound as existing largely in the mind. In fact, to read certain descriptions and correlations drawn between aural cause and effect, one could not be blamed for suspecting imagination at work. While this is not "a bad thing", it can make practical understanding more complicated than the usual prima facie "exchange of ideas", aka, BS session.
There is no question that the various components of a given driver, and their realtionships, affect the sound from the driver. So what? The idea is not to recognize and exploit the mere fact but rather to codify and get control over this, for predictable, repeatable resuts. Still, any "results" will NEVER be beyond one's abilty to understand and "further" exploit them for mining Music. And, obviously, one's capacity as a miner factors large at GSC, where there are at least bases for "judging" results.
God bless everyone who is happy with any or every "aspect" of any or every part of his system. If someone finds delight in the color rendered by compression drivers and horns, why try to take it away? As for finding significant cause and effect relationships between drivers, their parts, and the sounds they render, I have taken the long road to gain some practical working knowledge of this, and Haralanov is certainly my senior in these matters, as I have easily determined, practically speaking. I can say at the start (I have already said it...) that I am not predisposed to make anything more complicated, mystical, or fraternal than need be. However, this does not mean it is "simple". If the "best" cone for my purposes happens to be part of a driver that is rare and expensive, I will not on acquiring it join The Order and fall to my knees to worship it or the "genius" who designed it. Rather, it will be "developed" according to its aural merit in the context of the Music System. Also, I do not see the value in trying to write up a shopping list as some kind of short cut for anyone who thinks there is or will be some sort of abbreviated version to follow.
Obviously, Romy has his doubts about the practical value of the home-brewed drivers he has seen. And who can read without wondering about the practical significance of any number of "exotic", "natural" or any-type-of-formulaic-patent-medicinal curatives we see and hear about on the world wide web? OTOH, one need not leave the safe confines of Home to find snake oil in situ. Enthusiasm is not a crime; but taking it wrong can certainly result in "wasted" time.
On a lighter note, I have actually read some interesting - if relatively simplistic - commentary on Tone at guitar forums. Too bad about their bases for the discussions, however, and I will close by saying it bodes well for anyone interested in the subject to be alert to context.
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