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In the Thread: Contributing factors in compressed sound
Post Subject: Contributing factors in compressed soundPosted by malinowski on: 8/23/2007
I have been searching for a good discussion on this subject for a while an yet to come across anything that really explained this:
What are the causes/factors of compressed sound?
I know it when I hear it, and have heard this phenomenon attributed to everything from valves to drivers to enclosures and room treatments.. etc..
ROmy, you've mentioned that the quest for imaging is frequently accompanied by compression.. and you've also said how the TAD drivers (or sytems - unlear which) had a sound that was notably effected by compression.
What are the factors?
for the amplication stage? are certain driver tubes more susceptible to sounding compressed? is an el84 a driver known to image very well also more prone to this compressed sound? or is this the result voltages people choose to operate these by?
for the drivers? what drivers are characteristically more compressed sounding?
why would the TAD td-2001 driver sound more compressed than say.. a radian driver?
are compression drivers less prone to sounding this way than direct radiators?
a recent post about the RAL drivers mentioned a problem with compression.. is this true for all efficient cone drivers?
i was mulling over using something like the supravox 165-2000 for a midrange to go in my secondary.. less efficient system.. but don't want compressed sound...
i hate that whompy, poppy compression in my face.. it like being stuck in room with jim carrey or something.. what i want is music that feels like cool cucumbers on my eyes... and music that in so many aspect sounds like silence, that is present in my head.. not sticking its armit in my face.. anyhow.. thats how i characterize what i think is compressed sound. I am not very knowledgeable about these things.. i just know what i like and don't...
anyhow.. are there midrange direct radiators that are efficient and don't sound compressed?
what are the factors? at least from an amplfication stage and driver stage to avoiding this phenomena?
and why do you have a spellcheker when you intentinaly misspell everything... you should have a spell-wrecker.. that would be clever.
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