 Romy the Cat wrote: |
| Try slowly removing from your perception of concept of Audio Neutrality, substituting it with Event Recreation Neutrality. You might discover eventually that a Recreative Really has a very strong cross-expressive bound and not only might be applied in music. |
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Yes, and to give a very crude example, I went to see the new Panasonic “9th Series” HDTV (TH-42PH9UK) in the showroom. As it happens they had the older 8th Series HDTV still there on display trying to sell as a demo. So both TV’s were set up sided by side from an identical source feed. The new 9th Series clearly had a sharper picture and the motion was handled much more clearly than on the older model. But for some reason the 9th series TV was not as realistic a image on the screen. I had the same feeling in fact when I went to Andy Singer’s store in Manhattan and listen to their top of the line (i.e., most profitable) system, which is like I was an animal caught in a trap and wanting to gnaw off my own leg to escape from the listening room. The TV picture was to me very irritating and not realistic (less neutral) even though it was much sharper (more static transparency) when compared side by side.| Romy the Cat wrote: |
| Audio Neutrality is not only the subject of audio but also a subject of general artistic evolvement of a listener. Audio Neutrality is associated with depth of musical messages and with adequacy of musical “consumption” via playback. Under better listening and social conditions a listener, being ethically, culturally and spiritually developed to the level where she or he is able to consume the sensations, might participate on the harvesting of those sensations…. |
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Yes, and I would say that it is all about getting from the original musical event to the contact with the brain or soul of the listener. Many things can get in the way, for example if the listener has a bad ear infection, the reduction in the ability to hear the sounds may limit the music. Or if he is worried about his taxes and cannot concentrate on the music as well. The audio neutrality is about the interaction of the music and the listener, of which audio systems are only a small part. Having seen a documentary about Richter made it more involving to listen to the recording of the concert. The smell of ozone in the air after the rain was calming to me and allowed me to listen deeper to the music.| Romy the Cat wrote: |
| Audio Neutrality is mostly a subject of Audio Topologies instead of Transparency that is mostly a subject of implementations. |
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So the question arises about topology. Why is there resistance to the transformer preamplifiers then? It is very clear it will act as a variable band pass filter, which is very bad for the static transparency, but isn’t it possible that the topological change may result in improved audio neutrality? I don’t know, never having heard one, but the reports are intriguing that if I get the money perhaps I will try one some day. What do you think, Romy, is it worth a try?