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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The dynamic range of our playback

Post Subject: Dynamics are related to intensityPosted by rowuk on: 6/27/2014

I had a business lunch this week at an upscale restaurant. They served some german specialties like I never had them before. With each bite there was a "taste explosion" in my mouth - but none of them wasted my tongue, so the next bite, the next course could still be enjoyed.
With good playback, I think it can be similar. Each instrument, each musical thought before recording was full of color and richness - generating interest in what could possibly come next. Even the geometry of playback can intensify each aspect.
The problem with the playback words dynamics and micro/macro dynamics is that they have have no relation to richness, rather just to the leading edge, difference between soft and loud.
With speakers, it gets even tougher because the concept of dynamics as related to richness has at least 4 dimensions: space, time, magnitude, intensity. If we talk about acoustic music, the instruments change their sound, relation of fundamental to overtones when played more loudly. This makes resultant sum and difference tones part of the "dynamic" behaviour.
Perhaps the concept of much better "measured" behaviour the earlier in the reproduction chain simply creates more problems later on. Perhaps this is why a tuner with limited HF performance by todays standards can still deliver exemplary dynamic performance.

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