In Reply to: "transparent" versus "colored"? posted by immatthewj on August 18, 2023 at 15:32:14:
The answer to part of your question is relatively simple.
You listen to a lot of recordings of instruments simply recorded, without a lot of artifacts. You can find such recording in all genres, but you are most likely to find this among jazz and classical recordings.
You then go to concerts of jazz or classical music and hear what acoustic instruments really sound like.
Then you judge which component of those you are testing makes the recording sound the most like the real acooustic instruments. That will be your least colored component.
Transparency is something else, like there's less between you and the instrument. Recall what the concert experience was like.
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- RE: "transparent" versus "colored"? - Mel 08/19/2311:23:04 08/19/23 (5)
- RE: "transparent" versus "colored"? - immatthewj 11:50:32 08/19/23 (4)
- That approach - E-Stat 12:19:29 08/19/23 (3)
- RE: That approach - immatthewj 13:27:31 08/19/23 (2)
- In the real world - E-Stat 07:32:29 08/20/23 (0)
- RE: That approach - Analog Scott 14:21:05 08/19/23 (0)