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

Post Subject: The texture of the strings.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 2/7/2012

The texture of the strings is a huge subject. Audio has so much control over it! it would probably worth to have a new dedicated thread that would map the audio efforts to the expressionism of different group instruments, separate do string, upper and lower woodwinds, percussion instrument and etc.

It is need to be understood however that he most sophisticated texture of the strings possible to be archived in audio is not the most sophisticated way to go. The key is in adaptively of texture and an ability of playback to handle a wide range of string textural expressions and each of the textural expression need to have max expressive amplitude possible. It is similar to my definition of Absolute Tone that very few people understand: it is not how colorful playback plays but how colorful it might play if music called upon one or another, even opposite, colors. With string texture it is very much the same. You want to have as much string bite as possible but do not want to rapture the harmonics of fundamental pitch and you do not want to overly excite the smooth passages of string playing.

BTW, Rony, I am not sure what you use but I think in past you used Vitavox S2 driver. The S2 is blessing and curse of strings texture. Some things that S2 does is impossible to get from any other driver and some things are very ugly with S2. It requires a LOT to make S2 to operate more or less interestingly from strings texture perspective.

The Cat

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