learsfool
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| Voice. Most powerful and natural instrument. Natural, yes. Powerful, certainly not. | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi guys - great posts. @Kijanki - thanks for the jitter discussion. And yes, timbres of instruments are extremely complex. It makes for fascinating reading; the book I mentioned before is a great place to start - non-musicians would have no proble... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi guys - Kijanki, you make a very good point about jitter (and explains yet another reason why digital has never sounded as good as analog for me), and the intermodulation distortions. I guess I thought that jitter had more to do with timing, but... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Al - you wrote: "If you are saying that any note produced by any instrument will naturally and invariably contain frequency components of non-zero amplitude at ALL harmonic multiples of the fundamental (lowest) frequency component of the note (... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Al - thanks for weighing in on this. However, I think you are incorrect when you say "Harmonics can, and to some degree inevitably will, be INTRODUCED by the system in the form of distortion products." (My emphasis) Your own examples that follo... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Bryon - perhaps Al can weigh in on this and correct me if I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure harmonics couldn't truly be "added," (they are of course all already present in the timbre) though digital reverb would be an example of an "addition" tha... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi guys - I wrote a very long post last night, only to discover that I could not post it, for some reason. The discussion has meanwhile left me far behind, but it has been a very good one. Obviously, the main problem here is terminology. As Newbee... | |
| Flat Screen Recommendations: 50 to 60 inch I agree completely with Allchemie - my mother-in-law just got an LED LCD, and it isn't even close to my Panasonic plasma. Also agree that the Samsung plasmas are quite good. | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi guys - Hifibri wrote in his last post "By changing overtones you change the shape of the wave and the resulting sound." As I have tried to explain, the actual overtones do NOT change. Al, you are probably correct about the amplitude of them cha... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Bryon - loved the beginning of your post. :) I think we are actually in agreement here. @Hifibri - yes, re-reading what I wrote, that is a little confusing, for which I apologize. Basically, this is the part that is the important part: "the mai... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Lots of good posts here! @Bryon - Johnson is correct that many currently produced tube amps are not warm at all. In fact, the trend seems to be the opposite. Many companies are now making much more high-powered tube amps, so people don't have to c... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hello Hifibri - I guess I am still struggling with your use of the term "warmth", after reading your latest post. You seem to be equating "warmth" with the sound of the instrument itself, not merely as a characteristic of it. For a musician thinki... | |
| Decent budget turntable? Another vote here for the Rega - especially in that price range, it will throw a much bigger soundstage and have greater resolution of acoustic instrumental/vocal timbre, if you care about such things. The Rega P2 is a great value for the money, w... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Bryon and Hifibri - both of your last posts have fascinated me. I did not realize that audiophiles used the term "warmth" in quite the way you both describe - specifically, equating warmth with the body of the sound, as Hifibri put it, or with ... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? I would like to comment on one thing that Hifibri said - while I agree with pretty much all of the rest of the post, I would disagree with this part: "Recording studios can and usually are 'warm', dead maybe, designed to lack reverberations to con... |