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Was intrigued by this post from @svart-hvitt :
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...-bifrost-multibit-dac.2319/page-20#post-64475
Probably nothing new here in this post, but a place to discuss if it is of any interest.
There is the old idea: Use the finest most true to life microphones, in the most minimalist manner. Record with as much quality as possible. Do nothing to that quality except pass it on to the finest playback over the finest amps and speakers. You'll get genuine high fidelity, high end sound and it will be the best.....a reference.
Except, well no maybe not.
A good many recording professionals will describe inexpensive microphone preamps and ADCs as clean, and transparent. That is sometimes too clean. Clean is a dirty word. They are searching for preamps with character. Good character. Pleasing, beautifying, mesmerizing character. Obviously not simple fidelity. Fidelity is easy these days, quality character is an art.
Microphones are in need of a little mojo. A clean, flat responding mike gets lost in the mix. Adds nothing. Why pay big money for a mike if it doesn't offer something extra?
Now on the other end, though not acknowledge widely, DACs, and most amps are capable of clean, and clear. Speakers aren't, but again audiophiles want character added. Simple fidelity is not a good value proposition. So my idea is everything is inaudibly transparent other than transducers. So get the best transducers possible and then use signal processing DSP to make it like you want it. Otherwise people want character you can hear (which isn't fidelity). They want to have a special sound they are willing to pay for it. Experts declare something audibly perfect, and audiophiles hear a lack of character and say such experts are not to believed or of no help in their quest for great sound.
So use Harman research which claims they can link measures of speakers to listener preference with better than 90% correlation. Pick the best available speaker from measures at every price point and room filling level. Use transparent gear thru out. Get recordings that aren't monkeyed with and everyone has nirvana in audio right?
You didn't really answer that last question with a yes did you?
Everyone wants this:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...-bifrost-multibit-dac.2319/page-20#post-64475
Probably nothing new here in this post, but a place to discuss if it is of any interest.
There is the old idea: Use the finest most true to life microphones, in the most minimalist manner. Record with as much quality as possible. Do nothing to that quality except pass it on to the finest playback over the finest amps and speakers. You'll get genuine high fidelity, high end sound and it will be the best.....a reference.
Except, well no maybe not.
A good many recording professionals will describe inexpensive microphone preamps and ADCs as clean, and transparent. That is sometimes too clean. Clean is a dirty word. They are searching for preamps with character. Good character. Pleasing, beautifying, mesmerizing character. Obviously not simple fidelity. Fidelity is easy these days, quality character is an art.
Microphones are in need of a little mojo. A clean, flat responding mike gets lost in the mix. Adds nothing. Why pay big money for a mike if it doesn't offer something extra?
Now on the other end, though not acknowledge widely, DACs, and most amps are capable of clean, and clear. Speakers aren't, but again audiophiles want character added. Simple fidelity is not a good value proposition. So my idea is everything is inaudibly transparent other than transducers. So get the best transducers possible and then use signal processing DSP to make it like you want it. Otherwise people want character you can hear (which isn't fidelity). They want to have a special sound they are willing to pay for it. Experts declare something audibly perfect, and audiophiles hear a lack of character and say such experts are not to believed or of no help in their quest for great sound.
So use Harman research which claims they can link measures of speakers to listener preference with better than 90% correlation. Pick the best available speaker from measures at every price point and room filling level. Use transparent gear thru out. Get recordings that aren't monkeyed with and everyone has nirvana in audio right?
You didn't really answer that last question with a yes did you?
Everyone wants this: