Your erudite responses are appreciated. And I certainly don't want to be obtuse here. However, I do not believe that you have provided one real life experience where sibilance was present and then disappeared or vice versa.
In fact, I was at the Kansas City zoo today with my family. At one point we were in a large (approx. 13H x 25L x 18W) concrete walled room with an aquarium glass wall taking up about 2/3rd's of one of the long walls. As my wife was speaking to me from about 3 feet away and I paid close attention to her pronunciations. There were only 3 other people in this mostly empty room. Her s' sounded just fine. Both in the actual and the reverb. Just as I suspected. My wife's pronunciation did not change one iota.
As I stated in an earlier post. I ran a test (for other reasons) by taking out the amplifier's in-line power conditioner and ran the romex straight from the service panel to a cryo dipped hubbell 20 amp IEC plug and plugged it directly into the amplifier. The sibilance was very present and was the most notable difference. Enough so where I was anxious to put things back to the way they were. And I know how much the sibilance increases when I remove all 3 in-line conditioners since I did not always have them.
You guys can hypothesize all you want but I am not buying it.
Perhaps when Braab8 resolves his issue or begins the process of elimination, s/he will update this post.
Besides I already know I'm right otherwise I would have changed my opinion at least 3 posts ago.
:)
-IME
In fact, I was at the Kansas City zoo today with my family. At one point we were in a large (approx. 13H x 25L x 18W) concrete walled room with an aquarium glass wall taking up about 2/3rd's of one of the long walls. As my wife was speaking to me from about 3 feet away and I paid close attention to her pronunciations. There were only 3 other people in this mostly empty room. Her s' sounded just fine. Both in the actual and the reverb. Just as I suspected. My wife's pronunciation did not change one iota.
As I stated in an earlier post. I ran a test (for other reasons) by taking out the amplifier's in-line power conditioner and ran the romex straight from the service panel to a cryo dipped hubbell 20 amp IEC plug and plugged it directly into the amplifier. The sibilance was very present and was the most notable difference. Enough so where I was anxious to put things back to the way they were. And I know how much the sibilance increases when I remove all 3 in-line conditioners since I did not always have them.
You guys can hypothesize all you want but I am not buying it.
Perhaps when Braab8 resolves his issue or begins the process of elimination, s/he will update this post.
Besides I already know I'm right otherwise I would have changed my opinion at least 3 posts ago.
:)
-IME