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D Louth
D Louth
What are you looking for, some kind of EU standard for Hi-FI, it must measure within these tolerances, it must have this and do that, it must cover this frequency range, the THD must be within, the damping factor must be-- .
No, I think the gentleman was just asking for peoples opinions.
That was how I understood it anyway.
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D Louth
I Give Up
D Louth
To have a meaningful standard for audio reproduction, you'd first need to establish a recording standard. Something that is never going to happen.
Also, anyone chasing the "ideal" of getting their hifi to sound like a natural instruments is really chasing their tale IMO. The way an instrument excites the direct and reverberant sound fields in a room is incredibly complex and any method of reproducing that will be a pale imitation. A violin for example is shooting energy in all sorts of directions from each surface with weird frequency & phase characteristics, is a 2-way box speaker ever going to come close?
This is a very good point. However, do we really want to hear that violin in our own room? It would sound crap.
Tenson, I would suggest you to contact a violin teacher, who gives lessons in different places, also in school and privat rooms, and go with her and listen to the sound of a violin in the different rooms. You'll find the sound much much better than you describe it.However, do we really want to hear that violin in our own room? It would sound crap.
Yes but there is a hell of a difference between having a ear at a distance of 10 cm for over x hours a day or at a distance of 3 meters away once in a while from a violin. Please put in more aspects in the discussion in order to give a certain objectivity in it.It's not uncommon for violin players to suffer hearing loss in their left ear![]()
I agree with you if you mean that we judge audio reproduction mainly against our listening experiences in our life.Your life experiences.
So however old you may be you'll have likely heard thousands of voices and sounds over the years, in different acoustic environments, at different loudness and juxtaposed to other simultaneous sounds.