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| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? sargonicuse, devinplombier, Thanks for your info on the SPL apps. Are there good ones for Android? Or non phone apps now that Radio Shack is out of business? | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? @r27y8u92, "I have enjoyed the warm and smooth sound. Not any more. Whenever I go to music concert, I feel the sound from the concert somewaht harsher. But, the harsher sound is true to the music, and I like it better! Because it is simply more v... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? @Rauliruegas, Great observation that no analog musical instrument produces one pure note. When an orchestra tunes, the oboe plays an A at 440 Hz for about 30 seconds. The oboist tries to make a steady 440 Hz with steady loudness. But actually i... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? @atmasphere You said, "I concur with the result (passive controls sounding ’cool’ or ’thin’) but not the why. That is because the passive control allows the interconnect used to color the presentation far more than a properly designed active c... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? @Atmasphere, There are examples of detailed electronics that are also sweet, but that is a different discussion, I think. A common experiment is to bypass a stage such as a gain circuit, as in plugging a source into a good passive attenuator and ... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? @atmasphere I respect your electronics expertise. My experience with audio systems is that warm sounds come at the sacrifice of detail. And detailed audio leans in the direction of cool. However, what you said is only applicable to live music h... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? @sargonicuse Thanks for the NIOSH meter tip. Does it give the SPL on transients? I did like the Radio Shack meter fast response A weighting. One thing I don't like about apps is the possibility of intrusive ads. Any problem with this NIOSH app? | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? @mihorn Forgive me if I come to the wrong conclusion from your recordings when listening to flawed audio from my computer. FWIW, I heard conventional tonal balance. The Katie Melua recording of the voice has a fair amount of ambience, either na... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? @onhwy61 You correctly admit that the conductor hears everything. Even the conductor hears more than I do from the violin section, with the best balance that he/she creates. Why should the audience be deprived of hearing all he can? Logisticall... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? @rauliruegas, Once again, you are very smart. It is easy for me to utilize my experience as a musician to note my observations. But it is remarkable that you come to the same conclusion I do. We could ask a good listener who has had no indoctri... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? @rauliruegas Very well expressed. He and I are perhaps the only posters on this thread who value high fidelity to the real thing. The others are in the preference anything goes camp. What is live music? Sure, it can be heard from the 20th row... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? I have heard most of them and have been disappointed. My 1st audiophile speaker in 1978 was the Maggie Tympani 1D, a huge 6 foot tall, 4 feet wide in 3 16" sections. Compared to my college small Advent speaker which was musical, the Tympani was ... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? Yes. Take a SPL meter with you to the concert. I haven't tried an SPL app (can you recommend one?), but my old Radio Shack meter gave false readings when the battery was dying. As for symphonic music, Mozart used a small orchestra. From the 7th... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? Another aspect of accuracy/high fidelity is proper volume level. Live umamplified classical music has average SPL of 60-70 dB, peaks of 90, rare 100. Much of baroque music has average SPL of 40-50 dB, peaks of 80. An audio system trying to get ... | |
| If Warmth Is a Distortion, Why Do So Many Audiophiles Still Defend It? Warmth is fuzziness around the core sound. Electronically, this can be from tube or SS, also from anything that rolls off HF, loose bass such as cables, power distortion. I don't find such warmth in audio systems pleasing because it muddies the ... |