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In the Thread: The dynamic range of our playback
Post Subject: It must at least appear to be multi-facetedPosted by Paul S on: 8/4/2007
One funny thing about "dynamic range" is that different audio camps claim to desire and get some form of "improved" "dynamics" from their respective, widely differing topologies, from panels to single drivers, to plasma, etc.
Maybe they don't claim to offer the most grunt, but there are plenty of claims out there that purport some sort of "improvement" over other [speaker] types in terms of some "part" of dynamics, such as "micro-dynamics", "transitent speed", and other terms for what I have always thought of as various ideas relating to the general notion of "dynamics".
My own experience has been that no particular topology, speaker or electrical, offers the "whole package", including absolute SPL along with all of the "sub-sets" one might include in thinking about the larger concept/context of "dynamic range".
I actually started thinking about this a little while back, when the subject of "dynamic sinking" of ribbons came up, and I was wondering about why the so-called increased dynamic capability of a compression horn does not according to my experience produce the "dynamic acceleration" of the ribbon, yet it appears that it may yet exceed a ribbon in terms of what some might call, "dynamic range" or even, simply, "dynamics".
And what of the Cult of Dynamics, whose members pursue some mutually-held notion of dynamics pretty much to the exclusion - as far as I can tell - of pretty much everything else. Yet when I have heard some of these Dynamics Uber Alles systems I have found them - ironically - mostly lacking and/or strangely uneven according to my own sense of dynamics, or perhaps I should say, my own sense of dynamics priorities.
It seems like this has to be broken down to address it, if only because no one solution exists.
Best regards,
Paul SRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site