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In the Thread: Jessie Dazzle Project
Post Subject: A playback system as a statement of mind.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/15/2007
 jessie.dazzle wrote: |
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Jessie,
you might at this point have worries/interests about technicalities of horns operation or a desire to find theoretical justifications of horn functioning but the most interesting thing is that all of it has very indirect relation to the actual “truly important factor” in acoustic system. The 6-way installation that you are trying to build is a fine but even if you properly sliced the channels, used proper and better drivers, better building techniques, properly integrated the channels and even if you correctly employed the full spectra of “Macondo Axioms” then it might NOT necessary produce for you THE Right Result. It will sound OK but there is much-much more then just “OK”.
In a few month, after you installed your 6-chenals, power it - is the most interesting, the most complex and the most thrilling things will take place – you would need from an array of “frequencies pushing channels” to teach your acoustic system to play sound PROPERLY. Unfortunately this step, the most important step among all, is not just undermined by the Morons out there but even the discussing the methods that might be used to do so is a semi-banned subject among the most audio people. The typically-primitive audio people conduct random events and then talk about consequences. It is similar to a conductor who ask his players to take accidental notes with chaotic time intervals and then try to declare the result and as a “new voice of the 21 century”….
So, it a year from now and you have the powered 6-chennals in your listening room. Your “6-chennals” has high sensitivity, better drivers, used proper integration techniques, good powering and it is properly installed in your room. It produces some kind OK Sound. However, your “6-chennals” is not just good hi-fi but also is a perfect and superbly sensitive machine that allow you to adjust the tonal contrasts, the dynamic accentuations, the vividness of transients, the tonal interconnectivity, the fate of harmonics in complex tones, the relationship between timbers and harmonics, the quality of tones, setting all of it and many other things in a way how it should be. What is the most critical is that with your “6-chenals” you will be able to do it very naturally, without diminishing anything else.
That all might eventually bring you to a very complex question: how you would like Sound to be…. and ultimately it might lead you to the biggest subject of the entire audio: who we are. It might take a year or two to learn experiencing and reacting to the needs and capacity of your “6-chennals”. During that time the evolution of your “6-chennals” will follow the substance of your personality and depth of your musical/sonic interests. Interestingly that at this point you might discover a completely new definition of the very common audio words: resolution, soundstage, imaging and the similar, however, then those words will have absolutely DIFFERENT meaning then for other people and you will push completely different buttons to get your new understanding of “resolution” or “imaging”. I would not be surprised if at that time you will discover that for further advancement of your acoustic system you might find that reading Tchaikovsky diaries would be more beneficial for you then reading the Olson’s “Elements of Acoustic Engineering”…
What would be the most interesting is that you might discover that you do not need to know a lot of technical things in order to “know” them. Some purely technical aspects will become an organic extension of your sonic interests, like a tennis rocket might be a natural extension of hand for a well-practiced tennis player. Do not be surprised if at that time you might loose any interest to a cookie-cutter audio industry’s offering. You might feel then that if a person does not practice his own “tailored sound” (and it has NOTHING to do with DIY movement) then the person does not deserve your audio interest. You might discover a new ways to think and to talk about acoustic systems, or about audio generally - you still will be using the same nouns, verbs and adjectives, but they will have very DEFERENT meaning to you. Be prepared that then, many thing that you will be able to express about audio will have very little in common with what the Audio-Morons ™ are able to comprehend… You will be visiting other audio people listening their playbacks, trying to understand what they were trying to express by their Sound but you will recognize them as numb and deaf hobbyists, proud in their stupid “ownership status” and enthusiastic that they have a mob cretins who share their hobby with them….
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