jonheal;318996 Wrote: > By definition, I would think the "average" audiophile would be looking > for equipment that reproduces music as accurately as possible.
Why? I would expect them to be looking for equipment that supplies what luxury goods normally supply. This may have a functional element but it is not usually the most important part. jonheal;318996 Wrote: > Again, by definition, it would seem that good "studio monitors" fulfill > that requirement, in that they are supposed to color the music as > little as possible. "Studio monitors" are supposed to replay the recorded signal as accurately as possible (setting aside questions of directivity) which is different to reproducing music accurately. To reproduce music accurately the recorded signal would need to contain all the relevant information about the sound field impinging on the ears when listening to music in a particular room. A few microphone signals combined to produce a stereo signal for a couple of speakers of unknown directivity playing in an unknown room does not get close to achieving this. Which is why a stereo sounds like a stereo and not music. As you say, relative to "studio monitors" audiophile speakers typically distort the input signal (setting aside questions of directivity) and this is usually preferred by audiophiles. Consumer speakers like Bose often do the same thing in distorting the input signal relative to what could be achieved for the price in order to be more commercially successful. But the sound of the speaker is only one factor in why people opt for the speakers they do and, given the number of speakers that get bought unheard over the web, I suspect it is not as heavily weighted a factor as most audiophiles would like to believe. -- honestguv ------------------------------------------------------------------------ honestguv's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13734 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49757 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
