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Hi RATs!
OK, I am a humble software geek, further humbled by disease. My approach to Audio hardware is, therefore, restrained. Graham is sure I am searching the bit bucket for a Zero, but, he is an SS cretin, so, I just ignore him, normally ... I build circuits as close to the drawing as I can, then, after finding and fixing my inevitable bads, I listen for a good long time, weeks and months, to hear what Music is there, good or bad. THEN, and only then, I try and see if I can get more Music through the circuit. If you seek more Power, you have your head up your resume ... Yes, your meters work. No, they don't always know anything useful about perceiving Music. If we could measure Musical reproduction accurately, we would not need anyone to design and build and modify components. A straightforward software program would design perfection, or as close to it as available technology allows, every time. Relax, there is enough noise in our world to allow for some personal judgements to be made and appreciated within the limits of our very real, if not very great, available technology. I have built a few circuits. Some even worked, sort of, eventually. I have listened, a lot. This is improving, occasionally. Not changing anything allows the system to mature. Sometimes this helps. I truly love listening to live performances. I am also too sick to get out. Home brew, or, tweak, is my only available means to the simple end of digging the performances which have been recorded. It is obviously much more fun to reach the big Reward than to listen and try and find the next small step away from complete frustration. It is also more fun to win Lotto than to go to work on Monday morning ... The system is not the only limit to our enjoyment of recorded Music. It would be nice if we could solder around ****ty performances and mediocre recordings, but, grow up. It is truly hopeless, much of the time. Asumming the performance and recording were OK, what is stopping us from going bat**** happy while listening? There are many answers. The first one is we are not willing to do the required work. You really think rich people get perfect sound? Grow up. Nobody gets perfect sound. Some of us get more than we deserve, but, it takes work. The ultimate four letter word Haappy Ears! Al PS each of us can get more than we do, which is enough of a lie to keep me trying stuff |
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Stuart Krivis wrote
I build circuits as close to the drawing as I can, then, after finding and fixing my inevitable bads, I listen for a good long time, weeks and months, to hear what Music is there, good or bad. THEN, and only then, I try and see if I can get more Music through the circuit. If you seek So you turn up the "Music" knob and get more "Music" through the circuit? Feel free to putter around and do whatever you want, but I think you're fooling yourself with the "more Music" thing. Reproduction is engineering. Fidelity is art. Music is art. Reproduction only sounds like music to artless engineers who, having no other option, reduce fidelity to precision. Presumably, more musical things make more music? Perhaps Al has a hunch about the transformation of quantity to quality, and vice-versa, but hasn't quite mastered its logic. Maybe nobody has. cheers, Ian |
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Ian Iveson wrote: Stuart Krivis wrote Feel free to putter around and do whatever you want, but I think you're fooling yourself with the "more Music" thing. Reproduction is engineering. Fidelity is art. ********. I dare say however many chimpanzees it is *could* type the works of Shakespeare too. Graham |
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Eeyore wrote: I dare say however many chimpanzees it is *could* type the works of Shakespeare too. Graham Hi RATs! Shakespeare is safe in this NG Happy Ears! Al |
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Stuart Krivis wrote: Fidelity is precision when it comes to reproducing a recorded performance. I would seriously quibble with your choice of words. "Precision" and "Accuracy" are not even a little bit the same thing. "Precision" is a quality, "accuracy" is a level of performance. Example: A thermometer that reads to 0.001 of a degree. It is quite precise. Its (presumed) level of error is 0.0005 of a degree +/-. Another thermometer that reads in whole degrees only. Its (presumed) level of error is 0.5 of a degree +/-. Not terribly precise. If the former is off always by some amount of degrees greater than one, and not predictably so, it remains precise but not at all accurate. If the latter is always within its error level, it remains not terribly precise, but quite accurate. I prefer accuracy in my components. Precision is much more easily managed. Peter Wieck Wyncote, PA |
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