Einstein once said:
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted."
To my way of thinking this is apropos to this thread...right down to the ground.
When designing a loudspeaker, the question should be, the FIRST QUESTION:
'Does it SOUND LIKE music?'
If there is any equivocation, change whatever is that is mitigating that realism.
For years, some speakers have been maligned for 'too much treble' or 'too much bass'...given that we ALL hear differently this isn't surprising.
But...BUT, there is no doubting that flat frequency response is the start, just the START of a design. Tonal aberrations are generally disqualifiers for most people as we usually can pick apart some tonal glitch that makes a cello sound 'wrong', or a clarinet sound 'wrong', as most of us have a good inner reference since we've heard these instruments first hand.
As usual, Charles Dad and Atmasphere give sage advice.
Years ago a Supreme Court Justice, in describing Porn said, 'I don't know exactly how to describe it, but I know it when I see it.' (Paraphrase)
Speakers, to me, at least one's that sound real, are the same. You'll know it when you hear it.
And one final thought...any slight aberration becomes major, MAJOR in a short while...so if you hear 'a little too much treble' at first, within a week, you'll be absolutely crazy...at least I am.
Larry
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted."
To my way of thinking this is apropos to this thread...right down to the ground.
When designing a loudspeaker, the question should be, the FIRST QUESTION:
'Does it SOUND LIKE music?'
If there is any equivocation, change whatever is that is mitigating that realism.
For years, some speakers have been maligned for 'too much treble' or 'too much bass'...given that we ALL hear differently this isn't surprising.
But...BUT, there is no doubting that flat frequency response is the start, just the START of a design. Tonal aberrations are generally disqualifiers for most people as we usually can pick apart some tonal glitch that makes a cello sound 'wrong', or a clarinet sound 'wrong', as most of us have a good inner reference since we've heard these instruments first hand.
As usual, Charles Dad and Atmasphere give sage advice.
Years ago a Supreme Court Justice, in describing Porn said, 'I don't know exactly how to describe it, but I know it when I see it.' (Paraphrase)
Speakers, to me, at least one's that sound real, are the same. You'll know it when you hear it.
And one final thought...any slight aberration becomes major, MAJOR in a short while...so if you hear 'a little too much treble' at first, within a week, you'll be absolutely crazy...at least I am.
Larry
