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The paradox of audio versus music and science versus arcane art
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<blockquote data-quote="Byrd2" data-source="post: 17983" data-attributes="member: 384"><p>Being a professional amplifier designer I am sure you will be well aware that the difference between valves and transistors is clearly distinguishable by measurement. One's preference might lean toward a "valve" sound or a solid state sound, BUT it is clearly measurable.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Surely if you are selling these amplifiers, the set of ears that should take priority should be those of your client? So in the end if you are not happy with it but your client is then you as a designer should have achieved your goal as the cleint is then closer to their own personal truth</p><p></p><p></p><p>I think these two statement are contradictory. If one's primary goal is to design for how it sounds to the ear, then why even bother with formal measurements? ITO Speakers for example, some of the most successfull are not those designed to be perfectly flat. Although I would imagine that these designers did not just tinker until it sounded right. I believe that they set out to design a speaker with a particular FR response character and then measured it to make sure they had acheived that goal.</p><p></p><p>My second comment of this is how important is flat frequency response in reality? Ever see a general rooms FR response?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Byrd2, post: 17983, member: 384"] Being a professional amplifier designer I am sure you will be well aware that the difference between valves and transistors is clearly distinguishable by measurement. One's preference might lean toward a "valve" sound or a solid state sound, BUT it is clearly measurable. Surely if you are selling these amplifiers, the set of ears that should take priority should be those of your client? So in the end if you are not happy with it but your client is then you as a designer should have achieved your goal as the cleint is then closer to their own personal truth I think these two statement are contradictory. If one's primary goal is to design for how it sounds to the ear, then why even bother with formal measurements? ITO Speakers for example, some of the most successfull are not those designed to be perfectly flat. Although I would imagine that these designers did not just tinker until it sounded right. I believe that they set out to design a speaker with a particular FR response character and then measured it to make sure they had acheived that goal. My second comment of this is how important is flat frequency response in reality? Ever see a general rooms FR response? [/QUOTE]
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