irlsanders
New Head-Fier
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Well said, Dk. Although, most instruments do make sound from more than one place - just try micing a double bass. There's the buzz from the bow, the free air vibration of the strings, fingering sounds on the neck, and the full sound amplified by the resonating wooden body. A very complex accoustical system! That the whole system of mic-record-playback even works at all is astounding! Hardly seems right for us to gripe about it at all.
Idealy the transients should be reproduced on the same driver that makes the fundimental and harmonics of the note. Speakers and headphones are inherently limited in repoducing real instruments. Real intruments make all their own frequencies. headphones and speakers try to make all the instruments frequncies at the same time. This leads to one instrument doppler shifting the sound of another. Most headphones, and some speakers, at least have the advantage of each intrument's sound coming out the same driver. On headphones and bass: Headphones can never reproduce bass properly. Like islander and others have said, bass is not just an ear thing, it is a body thing as well. Also it is difficult to properly reproduce a bass note in a typical living room since the reflection hits you too soon. You'd need low frequency absorbing walls to get close and this isn't simple (cheap) to do. Sitting on a subwoofer is no answer, it vibrates the wrong body parts. Life is a comprimise, so is sound reproduction. There is no right answer, just the one that works best for us. [/B] |
Well said, Dk. Although, most instruments do make sound from more than one place - just try micing a double bass. There's the buzz from the bow, the free air vibration of the strings, fingering sounds on the neck, and the full sound amplified by the resonating wooden body. A very complex accoustical system! That the whole system of mic-record-playback even works at all is astounding! Hardly seems right for us to gripe about it at all.