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Originally Posted by Robisan /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I'm sorry, I don't want to divert the thread, but I just have to ask:
How can something be described as having boomy bass, yet also having excellent neutrality and balance? Boomy is not neutral. Balance would require all levels, not just the bass, to have the same boominess. Again, not neutral.
What exactly is poor stereo separation caused by the player? The A-B channels are encoded into the music file. Are you saying the Clip does not accurately deliver A-to-A and B-to-B?
How can something have a rather low level of micro-detail and also have excellent clarity? Setting aside what the difference is between detail and micro-detail, can something without detail really be described as having good clarity?
I'm not asking this to flame -- perhaps there are perfectly good answers, but to my admittedly somewhat lay person's reading your description of the Clip has internal inconsistencies that are hard to reconcile.
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Ok, I am not a sound engineer, but I'll try my best, based on my personal feelings and intuitions:
By boomy I didn't mean that the bass on the Clip is exaggerated, but rather that it lacks control and definition compared to more powerful sources. Not the best word to use perhaps.
By poor stereo separation, I meant that when using the Clip, the sound seems a bit narrow and congested to my ears, compared to my Sony and AMP3 for example. This lead me to believe that the Clip has somewhat poor stereo crosstalk, at least compared to my AMP3 and the Sony that is.
As for detail vs clarity, I think detail is basically how many sounds a piece of audio gear is capable of reproducing, whereas clarity is how purely a piece of audio gear can reproduce a single tone. Now, one may argue that clarity is therefore also detail, because if the sound is not pure, then it's not sufficiently detailed and part of audio signal is lost. I guess that's true, but I don't think detail on such a micro level can really be called detail because our ears don't have the capacity to perceive it as separate sounds. So we just call it clarity. Now, I think that if a piece of audio gear can reproduce a tone with enough of that minute detail to make it sound "clear" doesn't necessarily mean that it is detailed, because it doesn't mean that it has the capacity to reproduce enough of these tones/sounds to call it such. Hopefully this makes some sense. Also by micro-detail I mean the texture of the instruments/vocals. To me, macro-detail means how many instruments/vocals a piece of audio gear is capable of reproducing, whereas micro-detail is how many finer details in those instruments/vocals the audio gear can reproduce. Those finer details can also be called texture or harmonics.
Hopefully this clears things up for you somewhat. I know that is is not the most technically accurate explanation - probably far from it, but this is the best I can do at the time.
