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In the Thread: High End Munich 2023
Post Subject: That is much more to talk about itPosted by Romy the Cat on: 5/28/2023
 anthony wrote:
Macondo is no magic bullet.  Sure, Macondo/DSET is put together in a way that it's components need for optimal operation, and when "used as directed" the performance is phenomonal, but it is still prone to room integration and poor setup so will likely not suit show conditions.

Actually it is not exactly accurate. In the way my Macondo is a magic bullet. If you read carefully old article about Macondo axioms then you will see that one of the major underlying principle of Macondo topology is not to fight acoustic specificity of any given listening room but rather embrace and to operate within a given listening room idiosyncrasies. Mycondo, it is not what I designed but rather what I empirically ended up in the contact of the drivers is that I choose to use. I presume that in context of conceptual different acoustic of a listening room and in context of fundamentally different drivers that look of Macondo will be different.  Pay attention that Macondo does not populate anything about low frequency. Macondo is vertical pile of time align channels with imposement to use lower frequencies than upper base driver which do not conflict with the room.

 anthony wrote:
All playback systems are "ordinary" until enough effort has been made to integrate them properly to the room and listening conditions, even Macondo. High sensitivity systems with a high ratio of direct to reflected sound are especially sensitive to listening position so will never suit a room full of people who listen critically.  Macondo is a very personal playback, best listened in near-field in the 'sweet spot'...sort of like a pair of 2 tonne headphones.   
yes, it is correct but in my view it's need to be properly understood. Any acoustic system, regardless of topology is able to produce more accurate sound reproduction only it is religiously time aligned. There are many topologist which intentionally or not intentionally introduce minor or major time misalignment, something that I call timing randomization, and those systems tend not to have narrow listening spot. Some of them so much randomize time alignment is that you can literally listen across whole room. 

Now is the major kicker of this entire conversation. More time misalignment, means wider listening spot introduces more acoustic system own attitude. You might call it colorations, patterns, sustained harmonics or whatever you want but your system will not be able to adopt properly to the demands of recordiled material. However, and it is huge however. My personal quite extensive listening experience do not indicate that time misalign system more challenging for listener perception of musical content.  I completely understand that it is self contradictory 2 statements but only to a degree. Severe time alignment and severely narrow listening spot unconventionally produce better audio.  Time alignment with few fundamental mistakes produce horrible audio  and horrible music. A complete time randomization, if it is done properly not able to produce perfect audio but able to produce a listening environment extremely capable for introducing superbly high quality musical content. In fact, I would argue that in the top of implementations properly done randomization can overperform from point of view of musical content that properly time alliance system. Do not feel however that properly done time randomization is the only condition that is in play. It requires much much more. Also, do not expect me to itemize all requirements for successful time randomized system. It is not my area of expertise. I spent many years to study, observe the impact and to perfect playback in context of time alignment. I do not have enough experience to express anything sensible in context of time randomized systems. But I do testify that I hurt some ridiculously time misaligned playbacks that produced quite horrible out there but stunningly high level of musical context. Not to go very far, I have home old German radio from 1955 which produce audio far beyond any sensible criticism. However, I read composers and musicians intent with amazing level of resolution and precision from this radio, in my view even better than in listening spot of Macondo

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