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In the Thread: Amplification and Consciousness.
Post Subject: Freedom of expression vs. something to sayPosted by Paul S on: 5/1/2008
With the electricity being so bad my listening has been limited, and what I've been hearing has shifted my focus somewhat, which is annoying, to be sure, but it is also educational. I have been playing around with plate loading a little and noting the differences in the sound, and I have been shuffling through memories to try to compare the ML2s to other SETs I have tried. It's not like I ever lost appreciation for what no NFB SETs can do, but it is only recently that new super/sub-sets of realization have come to me about the nature of amplification as an abstract concept versus any number of approaches to actually "amplify" sound, specifically music. And, weird as it sounds to say it, this has literally changed not only how I hear but it has also changed what I am hearing, all the time.
It's not like my early impressions about the ML2 "effects" have changed, exactly; it's more like my perception of what these effects mean has changed.
In meditating on this matrix, I am thinking of the very best SET "immediacy", which, although very cool, has only been available over a very small part of the musical performance via SETs I have tried. And I am wondering how much of this delicious immediacy is made available from just the form of amplification that least restricts or controls -- anything.
I know this is an old idea, even hackneyed, and everyone and his brother claims to have come up with The Answer to The Problem of The Simplest Circuit.
So, where do we find this immediacy with FR and unlimited dynamics?
It seems ironic that to get the FR "dynamics" we wind up having to channel and in so doing ultimately cap them.
And I mean this in both abstract and "practical" terms.
It appears that pre-digested sound of any sort will ultimately be lacking in vitality.
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