The two Stereophile reviews of the Advent loudspeakers are interesting. The first by JG Holt describes the Advent's distortion as taking a back seat in transparency, "playing through a velvet fog".
http://stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/171advent/
Thirty years later Bob Reina described it more specifically as "a textural quality in the lower highs". "A grayish, grainy quality that stood out on every recording". And Atkinson's measurements noted the peakiness of the treble with a large peak at 13k which he noticed added a whistling quality.
Are Reina's ears better than Holt's? Why did he more specifically notice the most irritating distortion?
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Topic - Thoughts on describing distortion in loudspeakers? - edta 06:24:59 12/29/07 (18)
- RE: Thoughts on describing distortion in loudspeakers? - middleground 07:07:49 01/1/08 (0)
- RE: Thoughts on describing distortion in loudspeakers? - hahax@verizon.net 21:06:35 12/30/07 (1)
- Look, that was not a criticism of Holt - edta 16:31:44 01/3/08 (0)
- RE: Thoughts on describing distortion in loudspeakers? - Tom Brennan 12:52:12 12/29/07 (8)
- RE: Thoughts on describing distortion in loudspeakers? - edta 17:41:20 12/29/07 (7)
- RE: Thoughts on describing distortion in loudspeakers? - Tom Brennan 18:30:34 12/29/07 (6)
- RE: Thoughts on describing distortion in loudspeakers? - edta 06:43:41 12/30/07 (5)
- 890B - Tom Brennan 08:16:54 12/30/07 (4)
- RE: 890B - edta 11:34:54 12/30/07 (3)
- blowing out tweeters - Paul Joppa 14:48:22 12/30/07 (0)
- RE: 890B - Tom Brennan 12:19:24 12/30/07 (1)
- Thank you. nt. - edta 13:17:56 12/31/07 (0)
- RE: Thoughts on describing distortion in loudspeakers? - JimL 11:01:17 12/29/07 (3)
- RE: Thoughts on describing distortion in loudspeakers? - edta 17:23:28 12/29/07 (2)
- RE: Thoughts on describing distortion in loudspeakers? - hahax@verizon.net 21:04:37 12/30/07 (1)
- RE: Thoughts on describing distortion in loudspeakers? - edta 16:41:03 01/3/08 (0)
- My speculation - E-Stat 08:39:43 12/29/07 (1)
- RE: Heard them in their day - edta 14:01:45 12/29/07 (0)