mervin_b;620409 Wrote: > You can write the way you want to, but you don't need to tell me how to > write. > > I'm an engineer, and to claim "lower noise floor and less background > electronic noise such as hiss", I'd need to have (1) heard or measured > lower noise, (2) heard less hiss. Unfortunately I have not heard or > measured any such thing. > > In any case, I describe the musical experience, not the physical > phenomenon of vibrations hitting my auditory organs. I'm quite active > in music (performance and education), and if I threw "lower noise floor > and increased signal to noise ratio" at my musician friends, they would > tell me to stop speaking mumbo-jumbo ;). To most of them your > description won't tell them anything about how it sounds. > > It would be -so- sad if the day came that the beauty of music and joys > of listening had to be described in such sterile vocabulary. > > There's always room for objectivity and measurements, and it seems to > be that what I describe as blacker blacks, and you insist is lower > noise floor are two sides of the coin. The fact that I observe a > correlation with my use of quieter rectifier diodes may point to the > fact that we are probably in agreement as to what is happening > electrically too. However I consider it somewhat speculative to claim > conclusively that the diodes are directly leading to the blacker > blacks, or lowering the noise floor. Perhaps they are, but then again > they might not be. I just describe what I observe, and what I hear. > > Cheers.
You make some very valid points but you seem to forgotten one very important fact: we are not talking about terms used to describe music rather we are talking about terms to describe how a electro-mechanical audio system is able to reproduce a recorded piece of music. The point I was trying to make is that the high end audio press would rather cloud things up with "mumbo-jumbo" instead of working towards correlating audible results with scientific terms. For example more air around a given instrument might be the result of cleaner playback due to less speaker cabinet resonances. And again I remind you that I'm not talking about how to describe a live musical event or even recorded music but how to describe an audio system ability to play music. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86399 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
