I must have missed something. This hasn't become another analog/digital debate, has it?
Tim
I hope I haven't given that impression - the first release vinyls I've got sound as good when copied to digital with microdynamics preserved.
I must have missed something. This hasn't become another analog/digital debate, has it?
Tim
I hope I haven't given that impression - the first release vinyls I've got sound as good when copied to digital with microdynamics preserved.
Want to hear the difference between box and electrostatic speakers? Listen for micro dynamics.
This might have already been mentioned, but most electrostatic speakers are a good example of excelling at micro dynamics while being relatively inferior in macro dynamics and overall dynamic range. It's only a generalization, there are certainly exceptions for either type of speaker.
I wonder. I mentioned the suspensions, because my friend has a recent Naim speaker with good quality drivers, and he has the same problems: it takes a solid workout over some hours to fully condition them, for the "tonality", for want of a better term, to properly emerge.
Frank
Hello Myles
It all depends on what's in the box and how well it's put together. There are some damn good sounding boxes out there that are not stat based. If anything even if stats can do Micro very well some don't necessarily have the Macro end covered that to me is one of their weaknesses.
Robh
I agree, Bob, it's the whole shebang: one little problem somewhere and it goes down the gurgler. As Myles points out for for panel speakers, the more revealing the system, the more it reveals! I've got that Springsteen album on at the moment at a volume that my ears would start ringing within minutes if I was only a metre away, so the slightest defect just screams at you. So if any one of those things you mention are not quite there, not spot on, listening at this level would be impossible ...But guys, there is more to microdynamics than just the loudspeakers...
The volume control (pot quality), from the preamp section, and all its analog/digital stages.
The amplification itself.
The wiring from the Interconnects, the loudspeakers' internals, the enclosures, crossovers, speaker wires...
The playback sources.
The quality of the music mediums.
And all that Jazz ...
The sort of musicians I play with don't often say "Forte! Forte!" Roger. It's more like "See?...This one goes to eleven."
Tim
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