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In Reply to: The speaker plays the largest role here posted by Freo-1 on August 19, 2023 at 08:47:48:
"It can be argued that all speakers sound "coloured" compared to the actual recording."
You can't compare a speaker to a recording. A recording is a stored electrical signal. It has no sound without some sort of speaker playing it.
"How the speaker interacts with the room is huge,"
Fuckin A!!!
"and the ability of the amp to drive the speaker comes next in line."
One would hope this is a given but for sure if it hasn't been addressed this is a big problem.
"The speaker's dispersion pattern also plays a large role. Some speakers have a wider dispersion pattern, whilst others are quite narrow (ESL as an example)."
For sure it's a big big part. Also this is where one's philosophical approach to speaker/room ideal comes into play. Personally I subscribe to the direct sound of the speaker/minimalization of the room effects approach. Very different from the Toole/Olive approach.
"Transparent is providing the illusion that what you are hearing is not a recording. No system, regardless of price, quite gets there."
I don't think *that* is transparent. A transparent system will give you the most accurate account of what's on the recording. But the "illusion you are not hearing a recording" depends just as heavily on the recording if not more so than the playback system. And with that you have multiple variables that muddy the results
With that said, for the first time in the history of audio we now have a pretty accurate means of directly comparing a stereo system to live acoustic music. It's ironic that I have long held the position that any audiophile beliefs that we can actually evaluate our home playback using live acoustic music as a reference is absurd and highly misguided. Now with new technologies it's pretty close to a reality.
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- RE: The speaker plays the largest role here - Analog Scott 08/19/2311:11:34 08/19/23 (0)
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