[Vintage-Audio] Re Speaker Performance

Mon Aug 19 01:20:01 2002

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From: Bob <[email protected]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re Speaker Performance


> I really envy your source material. I wish I could get such
> recordings from some source. I wish I could insert my own
> compression for listening in noisy environments or for
> background music. When I sit and listen, I would appreciate
> 40 dB of DR.
>
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Sometimes, as you suggest here, that which makes the music
source so good becomes a curse.  My first wife just could not
accept the fact that the dynamic range of the source and the
recording is so wide that it goes from a whisper to window
flexing powerful.  So from the standpoint of practicality for
wife-pleasing and neighborly considerations in appartments
compression is a "good" thing.
For the most part I have never thought of music as being a
background thing.  It is foreground and the only thing the
mind
is to concentrate on at one time.  Even soothing music such
as Sheharrazade (sp?).  More than once I have sat down or
layed down with every intention of hearing each note of each
measure, appreciating not the screeching violins of Montavony
(sp? again), but the carefully tuned artistically played and
captured silky sound of... of... of....   well, realism.  Then
awakened to seel reels not turning and silence from speakers.
For the majority of the population absolute accuracy of
reproduction is more than they could cope with.  It forces a
certain amount of understanding... thinking... realizing what
a
live performance sounds like.  And I have heard comments
in an audience "there is not enough bass" or some other thing
based on the home-sound of Bose or equally horrible
experience.  The sound of recorded/broadcast music is so
burned into brains that real cannot be real, if you get my
message.
A few dollars for tickets to a live music presentation is
still
the best there is.
Go for it people.
Bob McKee