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Post Subject: Naturally suck-sounding playback or Karaoke Playback AssessmentPosted by Romy the Cat on: 5/1/2010
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Today is the last day of BSO season and the first day what my antenna is up and I might listen the BSO in it’s full glory. The azohen-vey Glory! I was listening the programs today before the live broadcast. It is not that I do not like the sound. The sound is OK but it is light miles from MY sound. It has no meaning and playing it to any of you I would not be able to say “Do you know what I mean?” and this sound is just a good high end sound but it has no esoteric expressivity and I find it boring.
As the broadcast started I was careful listening what BSO under Bernard Haitink and WCRB did with Leonore Overture No. 3. Well, the WCRB does fuck some this up but I know that with me do not calling them for 2 months and straight them up they would do it. Still, the most important for me now was how my playback would handle the live sound. Generally it is not good and peaty much what I expected knowing how my playback plays CDs.
I will not enumerate the specific problems, they are well-identified and I will be working to address them but in context of this thread there is one more debugging tool that I am employing. My room looks into conservation lend and the listening room has large sliding doors that allow opening the space between the speakers wide to the forest. I am listening now Emanuel Ax playing with BSO the Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and during the second movement I use my recently invented “Karaoke Playback Assessment” method.
The Karaoke Playback Assessment implies melting the sound of playback with sound of forests. Listening the sound of frogs, birds and goods know what else lives in the forest and adjusting the volume of playback in orders to make the forest to sound at comparable level with BSO it is very educational to see how the sounds that playback produces compares in trims of neutrality with the screams of the birds. Well, it is not difficult to predict that it does not compare now. Well, it clearly identifies the direction to work with sound. I do not need the bird to let me know that my playback dos not prodigals interesting sound now (as it did) but the birds are good reference point to polish ego and self-delusions…
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