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In the Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker
Post Subject: The age old problem of choosing the wrong evaluation systemPosted by Joe Roberts on: 1/23/2009
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I would like to see more elegant solution, like an introduction of some kind of directional pressure beams that would act upon the Manger cone and to jolt or comforting it what it is necessary.


THAT would be cool. If anybody knows how to introduce "comforting directional beams to act upon the Manger cone," please let me know.

We just punked out and settled for a diffusor.


The “single source” neither is a fact a byproduct of a specific sound reproduction method but it has no existence in LIVE sound and there is not need for it pursue in sound reproduction.


Hence, the qualifer "illusion" as noted above. The problem is two or three identifiable frequency-dependent sources has no reference in live music either and when you can hear this in reproduction, you are really losing the game.

The whole project of reproduction is, of course, about illusions.

And yes, delusions too.

We are working with reproduction, not live music. Nothing sounds like live music, except live music. Since this is obviously the case, any attempt to rank our failed attempts at perfect recreation as more or less "like" live music involves arbitrary judgments, taste, and an underlying delusion that reproduction is even possible.

A better term than "reproduction"  might be  "pale imitiation."

Trying to characterize everything in terms of frequency response is a dead end, having to do with physics and meters and whatnot, not music. I always wondered how all these Romy/Harry Pearson type "absolute sound" guys don't see the disjunct between dry technical evaluation and sensuous musical experience.

Oh yeah, I covered "delusion" already.

If we shift evaluation schemes to subjective emotional responses (which is the reason we listen to music),  then we are standing on common ground between live music and playback.

Emotional response takes into account factors such as taste, musical preferences, differences in individual hearing capabilities, and so on. The "human sound meter" delusion pretends that such factors do not intervene, when in fact they are the most relevant and vital aspects of the audio illusion. Why else have a stereo?

If you want to talk technical measurements, that's cool with me...just don't pretend that you are talking about musical bliss. There ain't no LCD readout bliss meter.

The real solution:  hire a band.

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