moshulu;177091 Wrote: > What it means to me in practice is that I have no sympathy or > understanding for people who try to get their home audio system to > re-create something approaching the experience of a live performance. > This is so far from being achievable so as to be a meaningless goal. A > couple of nights ago, I was listening to the Orchestre de Paris playing > Mahler's 6th at the Salle Pleyel. This is not the world's greatest > band, but I remember thinking that the quality of the live experience > is light years away from anything that a top-end system could reproduce > (much less mine). I'm not sure why this is so, but I suspect it results > from the fact that the sound in a concert hall is produced by dozens (?) > of square meters of active generating surfaces (strings, sounding > boards, drumheads, etc), and in my living room all I have is a few > dozen of square centimeters-worth of speaker cone. >
I agree we're very far from this goal, and that it can't be achieved given the current state of the art. Still, I think we're closer for some sounds than others - for example my speakers do solo cello pretty well. It's certainly not perfect, but the differences are reasonably subtle. Orchestral music is harder, I agree - have you tried elecrostatics? To answer the OP, I spend a lot of time on both. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32378 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
