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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: About the Audio Neutrality.
Post Subject: Transparency vs. neutrality... Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/4/2007

 drdna wrote:
It sounds as if you are are relating neutrality to music in a roughly analogous way that people use the term transparency in relation to sound.  In my mind a system can be transparent without being neutral, however, as transparency to small signal details, etc. can bring one further from the music.  It is the certain indefinable things that happen to a system that allow the listener to cease to care about detail, transparency, distortion, etc (to me) that occur as the reproduced sound comes closer to the Music that I would define as absolute neutrality.  The tricky thing is trying to describe what occurs in systems that are not perfectly neutral in this respect?

Yep, a system might be transparent without being neutral. Transparency is fidelity of the quantifiable properties recognized by intellect. Neutrality is fidelity to musically recognized by awareness. Neutrality might or might not be affected by transparency as neutrally reproduced sound might not be necessary a transparent sound. Neutrality it is not what is auditable but rather what is delivered. Neutrality does not operate by the language of the communication channel; in fact it is blind to the language of communication.

Let me a give you an association about transparency vs. neutrality. Pretend you have written a book in English and in your book, at the page number 146, you unintentionally misspell a name of one of your character. The book was published as is. Then someone translated your book into Greek language for instance. You opened up the Greek version of your book at the page 146 and you see that that your mistake was corrected by the translator. In this case the translation was not “transparent” but “neutral”.

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