Hello All,
New to the forum and current Pass Labs owner. I'm intrigued by these designs. In specific, the ability to sound like live music and zero coloration..
Any owners and members that have heard both brands?
Thank you
Mike
One way to put it is Spectral is more "neutral" while Soulution is "sweeter". If you are philosophically inclined toward "neutrality", go Spectral.
i don't think i understand what 'neutral' is. does that mean it plays exactly what is on the source? if that is the case it is impossible to do that as every component has a sound whether you think they do or not ... and i am not even getting into how the source material was recorded and with what equipment. assuming you can have a speaker and amp and pre amp and source with no sound is that what one would consider "neutral?" i wonder if i am missing the boat by building a system based on what my big ears like to hear ... ?
To me personally I would describe "neutral" as nothing added and or nothing subtracted. The first time I heard a Magico/Spectral combo on a demo with a friend who was interested. His comments were this is "too analytical and soulless for me" I said nope its neutral to me. I guess he liked the sound of tubes and colored speakers. To each their own.
To me personally I would describe "neutral" as nothing added and or nothing subtracted. The first time I heard a Magico/Spectral combo on a demo with a friend who was interested. His comments were this is "too analytical and soulless for me" I said nope its neutral to me. I guess he liked the sound of tubes and colored speakers. To each their own.
To me personally I would describe "neutral" as nothing added and or nothing subtracted. The first time I heard a Magico/Spectral combo on a demo with a friend who was interested. His comments were this is "too analytical and soulless for me" I said nope its neutral to me. I guess he liked the sound of tubes and colored speakers. To each their own.
I don't understand neutral as being absolute but rather more general and holistic a trait. It doesn't exactly translate as absolutely transparent... which is a bit more of an unobtainium a quality. In my understanding it just rather that the component doesn't really alter the system's overall balance and essential sonic character in any more obvious ways. The component that is neutral has a signature that is less overtly recognisable. It might add distortion but it is just more even handed in its distortion. It tends to be coherent and the overall quality would be neither noticeably cool nor warm or vary much from bottom to top and comes through as a trait that you can recognise when listening to that component and swapping other components that clearly do have a recognisable signature and that the gear that is not neutral is always recognisable as truer to itself. Eg a neutral amp and speaker combination lets you hear the differences in all the other gear much more easily and clearly because a bit like pure alcohol they don't mix the cocktail of signal traits up when added and when you change other gear in.
Most components have some characterstic that sets them apart from neutrality but yes some components do leave a lot less trace of themselves and certainly don't alter the balance or nature of the total system in any significant way. Relative neutrality amongst more components tends to keep the overall signature of a system a bit less complicated.
For me sounding like real instruments is my goal
To me neutral has a perjorative meaning like grey
It just doesn't sound like a positive attribute
When I get instruments that sound real.. I don't think Wow ..neutral
I go " Wow" music
madfloyd should be able to comment , CAT and soulution pretty far apart soundwise i think
They most certainly do, but the OP is asking about Spectral vs Soulution, not CAT vs Soulution
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