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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story.
Post Subject: How right you arePosted by Antonio J. on: 3/5/2005

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 Romy the Cat wrote:

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The positions of the instruments are an arteffect of sound reproduction and in real "live" you do not recognize the instruments positioning. You acknowledge thier presents “somewhere there” but you never recognize it as “right” or “left”. The real "SPACE" of “life” musical event is “instantaneously dimensional” and our awareness ever-present at each single particle of the performing space. When you listen "life" music you do not listen first violins and then migrate your listening attention to right where the cellos are. Our listening consciousness performs multitasking, instantaneously sampling space within an unlimited amount of locations, and then instantaneously (and without any hierarchy of events) allows us to experience the sensed. Sound reproduction never furnishes the same opportunity as space presented in reproduction has a hierarchical and sequential pattern. The only sound that I even heard that was very much different from a typical “reproduced Sound” was the sound of Melquiades. I am not kidding: when I said that Melquiades produce VERY DIFFERENT sound I really meant it.

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Fascinating. This is one of the things that makes reproduced music always easily distinguishable from live music (appart from many other factors) and that makes mono recordings very enjoyable to me once you manage to have them sounding "wide", and of course if the music is interesting. I've managed to voice my system, which probably you wouldn't like at all, to have certain "coherence" in the imaging thing to have it quite "difusse", I mean conveying the sensation which you have in a live performance, that the music is somehow carried on the air and brought to you with the players' positioning mixed and blended making for a unique huge sound source. Of course there's left and right and front and back, but there's always some sense of "unity" of the whole sound product. If the Melquiades can do that right then it would be the most impressive piece of electronics I might listen to. If a single preamp could do it with any "average" power amp then my life would be much easier, ha ha ha. I don't think I had the skills and knowledge to build a Melquiades amp (provided I could find the parts) but a preamp would be a different thing.

Will you ever post "how to"?

Regards,

AJ

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