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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The “sounds” that I am looking for.
Post Subject: There is no a lot of truth in the Oops-ExpressivityPosted by Romy the Cat on: 5/20/2008

 el`Ol wrote:
Hello Romy!

When I listened to the Goebel NXT speaker I was impressed how it can reveal structure or the absence of it at levels where one would really have to concentrate on when listening to a conventional speaker, and I find, even reality. Of course a quasi-chaotically vibrating wood/synthetic sandwich board that destroys most of the phase information is much further away from reality than other speakers, so I suppose the partial destruction of structure improves the perception of it. My assumption is that this speaker would exaggerate at higher listening levels, but this can´t be tested, simply because it is not capable of handling them.

Do you listen at "original level"?


I do not know the Goebel NXT speaker but if I understand you correctly they are the pleasantly resonating panels. The idea is good but the problem that I purely conceptually see is that those mechanical resonances would be equally presented with all kind of music as soon sound hits the right volume and right frequency. It might be off the subject of this thread but I would remind that I view that the key is to make the sound desirably-colored but only at the point where coloration do not start introduce masking effect on differences, when discrimination does not heat. It is very difficult and usually audio people, in some instances myself included, have very difficult time to found the right balance point.

It is very difficult to color the B/W sound. It is like using the old RGB silver film and trying to balance out gray tone – very-very difficult at certain level of demands. Each of the RGB layers has own deviation of contract. So, balancing the gamma of .65 is easy but try to do the same at full black and the full white at the same time. With sound is more complicated as we have very-very little means to control contract. To control contrast right along with colors and across the whole dynamic range is incredibly difficult task. Partially I get a good result with the Injection Channel that assures a wide dynamic range of the “tweak”. In case of the resonating panels I think it would be more complicated as they usually affective in very barrow dynamic and tonal region.

Still, it should be heard. Hot necessarily how it sounds but what the person is trying to accomplish and how it relates to what he is getting.

The Cat

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