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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers
Post Subject: Musicians, Judging Playback, & the value of Resonating SpeakersPosted by drdna on: 12/1/2007
 Winnie wrote:
Firstly let me say that I believe musicians could be just about the most important people to judge the quality of Hi Fi. They know how the music sounds during creation so can best judge if that quality has been preserved (less destroyed) at playback.
I think you have to actually be involved with music performance and production to know what I mean.  A large part of what musicians listen for are cues to guide their performance, not necessarily accuracy, emotion, etc.  Whenever I heard musicians' comments on playback, I am always struck by how alien the comments seem to how I was listening.  And I am around a lot of musicians.

As to being there at the creation, unlike the audience, often you can't even hear what's going on when you are playing.  That's why you need monitors or earphones, etc.  If you don't have those, hilarity may result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wffwg7pA0t8

where this poor amateur musician could obviously not hear she was out of tune with her backup band.

 Winnie wrote:
The Podium Sound speakers contain masses of what I believe you are calling Resonating Oops. They preserve and encourage interaction with the room like a live performance...On first hearing I fell in love with the sound of the Podium .5. They are almost diametrically opposed to my horns, but this is the first time in 2 decades that speaker presentation has stopped me in my tracks.  I have a new pair for collection next week.


While I think a resonating speaker can add its own musicality to a reproduction, it is clearly adding harmonic distortion, etc.  It may be pleasant, but you run the risk of needing differently tuned speakers for each type of music, maybe?  I am always cautious about "love at first listen" since usually it is just a novel type of distortion my ear hasn't been accustomed to yet.  This is how most audiophiles end up running from one new product to the next.

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