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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: My playback’s sound vs. Live sound.

Post Subject: Opera last nightPosted by RonyWeissman on: 2/4/2012

Puccini il trittico live in lyon 1st balcony center vs. Shelter 901 through three-way horn-loaded speakers in myExperience room!
Looking back through romy's earlier posts in effort to reconcile live experience last night with what I have at home!
I wanted to write a post about the absolute tone as ultimate playback criteria, but romy has me thinking differently. Really there is no need to compare the sound between the two "events" . I will take what i liked about the live performance nd see if I can add to my home playback as I see that is missing. Notably the resonance and graininess of wood and horns that are much richer than the somewhat clear bell sound i have.
But there are artifacts of my home system that i appreciate more, the lyon opera is too dry, the tympany and double-bass do not extend into space properly, the bass is not launched properly, whereas at home with live FM or very good LP it is the fundamental element of the "performance".
Leaving these comparisons aside, I know have to decide if my home system is giving me what i want, and unfortunately the answer is maybe 20% of the time, depending upon source material. Not a bad start.
The difficult part is tryning to figure out what to change for desired result. What do i change or modify to have softer sounding violins? Tracking force, cables step-up, amplifier etc etc! How do i bring forward the cellos in symphony fantastique without making my double-bass bloated...

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