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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker
Post Subject: Yes and no...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 6/13/2013
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 de charlus wrote:
It is indeed an interesting subject; I am instinctively drawn to it due to the fact that the majority of orchestral instruments - the majority of my listening is orchestral/chamber/classical soloists - produce their own sound through the resonance of a semi-sealed enclosure.
Hm, yes and no. Yes,  because of cause it is correct – any musical instrument use resonance of a semi-sealed enclosure. No, because it has nothing to do with audio. The mistake you made is very typical in audio, let me to explain. When a let say trumpet or viola player “ use the resonance of a semi-sealed enclosure” of own instrument then  not the responses crate the sound but the awareness of the player doe it. The player knows his/her instrument and has playing techniques, so the player not only use the responses but intentionally navigate and administer them in order to create the sound s/he intends. That does not exist in audio. Any resonance, coloration or character of sound are fixed and fixed mostly in linear pattern. There are some very rare adaptations of non-mechanical intelligence (like different level of narrow-band compression at different dynamic ranges) but they are very seldom. Mostly audio is brain-dead. If you build some kind of bent bass horn and it has the some kind of “resonance of a semi-sealed enclosure” then this resonance will be everywhere and always. The players who play that organ version of Art of Fugue do not know about that resonance in your midbass horn and THIS is the key in all of it. 

de Charlus, thanks for the London tips.  I will deploy wifey to the task, she is my traveling manager…

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