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In the Thread: The 5-ways from Germany.

Post Subject: Sound vs Sounds + more about GotoPosted by Romy the Cat on: 2/5/2018

martinshorn wrote:
This is at least how i (surprisingly) perceived Goto: very wild - though not colored, respectively. And very important how you choose your words - the way of presentation. This is a fine but important difference to "having own sound" which i perceive like coloration. Which really wasnt the case. So ill remember that phrase, a very good one!

I would not agree with this comment as well. Let agree that "having own sound" and “colored” is not the same things. I would not even use the "having own sound" but rather "having own presentation" and ended Goto do have own presentation or own sound. There is nothing wrong in the concept of having own sound of the word Sound is understood properly. Vienna, Chicago, Leningrad and Prague orchestras, each of them have own presentation and own sound but I do not think anybody would call it “coloration”. Own sound is a character of Sound but colorations as characteristics of sounds. It is Sound vs Sounds and unfortunately in audio we seldom talk about Sound and mostly talk about sounds. There is another interesting twist in this ploy that should not be forgotten. In orchestral Sound it is perfectly fine to have colorations from Sounds in audio it is not fine. The reason is because the orchestral Sounds are created by people, they are aligned with human intentions and they have no structural consistency. The orchestral coloration at one specific musical moment might or might not be resulting with orchestral coloration during another musical event. In audio it is very different. If you driver, room, filter or amplifier has a specific coloration at a given dynamic and frequency region then this coloration will be there ALL TIME and this coloration has structural and harmonic consistency.

So, returning to your Goto drivers. Like anything else in Audio they have own Sound, own sounds and own presentation. It is up to a system owner to navigate all of it and make some characters more prevailing and some less. I agree, Goto have less sounds colorations then Altecs for instance that is expected considering the magnetic force, moving mass and presumably quality of assembly. But this is not what I find interesting in Goto. The most remarkable in my view about Goto is that they somebody render the character of the sound despite that they are not too sophisticated in pure colors department. I know that you was very impressed how colorfully Goto were but it is not my experience. Still, somehow, being colors challenged Goto somehow does not give an impression of color insufficiency. I think this is a very interesting character of Goto sound. Here is an illustration for you that I would associate with Goto sound. There is no firework of colors in the image below but no one would feel that the image has a shortage of colors.

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