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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: About the Audio Neutrality.
Post Subject: A good example of neutrality or its absencePosted by drdna on: 4/10/2007
 Romy the Cat wrote:
I do not think that my “resistance” to transformer preamplifiers” has to do with audio neutrality and particularly in context of “improved audio neutrality” as I do not think that neutrality might be “improved” (though it might be “conditionally” reinstated)...

then in regard to the new mini Hi-Fi: 

I relay do not recognize music with this unit – it makes everything to sound absolutely different and very muchwrong. It hard to explain: the notes are there but they have absolutely wrong meaning ... Even when the Denon plays the BBC announcements then it is clearly audible that this unit does something incorrect with sound. Not in term of Hi-Fi but rather in tern of meaning… the meaning and… pleasure. The phrases and sentences with Denon are the same and it looks like nothing else is requires (for news programs) … but substituting the Denon with Melquiades/Reds it is clearly auditable that suddenly the regular BBC newscast might sound pleasant and elegant and those BBS folks with their magnificent Brits’ accent sound more like music.. With Denon is it juts radio.



Yes, this is exactly what I am talking about when I refer to musical neutrality.  With transparency, the audio allows all the details to come through, but with neutrality, the audio must allow the emotive meaning and understanding to come through.  You must be able NOT necessarily to hear the type of violin being played (this is static transparency) but you know what the musician is meaning, as surely as if he is there playing and you can see his body language and the expression on his face as he plays.

After many years of poring over MJ magazine, this is the reason I am very excited about the Melquiades topology, and why I also have hope for the TAP transformer attenuator, which in some way you can make the analogy that TAP: passive preamplifier :: SET: balanced amplifier.

Adrian

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