If I may intrude......
It appears Frankie here has been trying to tell us the same thing Roger has, Mike L has and GASP! Tim has.
Whenever Tim talks about going active, getting rid of pesky crossovers, and having as a result lots of CLEAN power for each driver, not only are we minimizing distortion (signal) but as Don has said in his rumble filter example in another thread although the other way around, noise too.
Can you increase dynamic range without adding up top, in this case more power? Of course we can! We drop the bottom! Where I disagree with Frankie is that he apparently feels the physical environment is of little consequence, and it can all be done in the electrical realm. I personally feel you have to address both. Whether it is building a quiet room or doing nearfield, the caveat is that the lower the external influences, the quieter, the more audible low level noise and distortion become. I do agree with Frank that these little things add up. The maddening thing is that this, at least in my case, it initially comes in the form of instinctive feelings of things not being right and it takes a lot of time to figure out and identify the contributing elements of what I think of as low level pollution. My analogy is of airborne particulates. You know there's smog but you don't know what it's made of. The composition varies from city to city.
I do not agree with Frank that it is possible to make everything sound good, well maybe, but not without dumbing down the recording. If it was messed up in the recording, if the noise and distortion are in the recording there's no way to fix it. I've explained my view on this many times so no need for me to do it all again here.
So! What ya building Frank? And yes, don't forget the pictures
It appears Frankie here has been trying to tell us the same thing Roger has, Mike L has and GASP! Tim has.
Whenever Tim talks about going active, getting rid of pesky crossovers, and having as a result lots of CLEAN power for each driver, not only are we minimizing distortion (signal) but as Don has said in his rumble filter example in another thread although the other way around, noise too.
Can you increase dynamic range without adding up top, in this case more power? Of course we can! We drop the bottom! Where I disagree with Frankie is that he apparently feels the physical environment is of little consequence, and it can all be done in the electrical realm. I personally feel you have to address both. Whether it is building a quiet room or doing nearfield, the caveat is that the lower the external influences, the quieter, the more audible low level noise and distortion become. I do agree with Frank that these little things add up. The maddening thing is that this, at least in my case, it initially comes in the form of instinctive feelings of things not being right and it takes a lot of time to figure out and identify the contributing elements of what I think of as low level pollution. My analogy is of airborne particulates. You know there's smog but you don't know what it's made of. The composition varies from city to city.
I do not agree with Frank that it is possible to make everything sound good, well maybe, but not without dumbing down the recording. If it was messed up in the recording, if the noise and distortion are in the recording there's no way to fix it. I've explained my view on this many times so no need for me to do it all again here.
So! What ya building Frank? And yes, don't forget the pictures
