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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The Sound and How We Hear It
Post Subject: Good and bad tone?Posted by drdna on: 11/9/2008
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 tuga wrote:
At the moment I am trying to figure out how distortion and tone relate to clarity. For me it's very important that a system can ... play loud without distorting.
Of course both tone and clarity can have their own types of distortion. It sounds like you are very much having a preference for what I would call subtractive error (i.e., not tolerating any form of added distortion) but also still a bit obsessed with the sounds of your recordings, like the dynamics and clarity.

 tuga wrote:
If all recordings sound different, how do we get a good tone? Since a system with "good" (or bad) tone would mask the sound of the recording, what I wish for is a system to portray a broad range of tonal colours.
Well I do not agree that a system's "tone" would "mask" the sound of a recording. I would say it is all a part of an interactive chain that includes the original musicians all the way to your brain. However, this is probably why we all have favorite recordings -- these were probably recorded in a way best suited to our ears and brains (excluding glaring recording flaws of course).

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