Presence means hearing a recording in one's listening room which is convincing and believable in the sense that it allows the listener to suspend the listener’s disbelief to the point where the listener has the impression that the performer on the recording is actually in the room with the listener, or, given the recording's acoustic, that the listener is at the venue where and when the recording was made -- that the listener is listening to a performance rather than to a recording of the performance. Presence is the combination of excellent sound staging, three dimensional imaging and a “palpable” sound.
Presence also means that the sound fills the room and is not perceived as a plane of sound at and behind the speakers that one experiences as an observer. A system which has presence has the ability to fill the room and surround the listener, just like when listening to live, unamplified music. The string quartet, the chorus or the solo vocalist playing guitar is in the room with the listener.
(Peter Ayer, February 20, 2016)
Transparency means that with respect to having the sense that a live person is singing to the listener in the listening room there is nothing "between" the listener and the singer. Transparency means listening to a vocal or instrumental performance with no electronic neutral density filter of any kind between me and the singer.
A transparent system recreates a vocal or instrumental performance which makes as easy as possible the suspension of disbelief. A transparent system allows the listener to hear no electronic adulteration, no artificial or unbelievable "carrier" riding on the signal.
(Ron Resnick, December 13, 2015)
Presence also means that the sound fills the room and is not perceived as a plane of sound at and behind the speakers that one experiences as an observer. A system which has presence has the ability to fill the room and surround the listener, just like when listening to live, unamplified music. The string quartet, the chorus or the solo vocalist playing guitar is in the room with the listener.
(Peter Ayer, February 20, 2016)
Transparency means that with respect to having the sense that a live person is singing to the listener in the listening room there is nothing "between" the listener and the singer. Transparency means listening to a vocal or instrumental performance with no electronic neutral density filter of any kind between me and the singer.
A transparent system recreates a vocal or instrumental performance which makes as easy as possible the suspension of disbelief. A transparent system allows the listener to hear no electronic adulteration, no artificial or unbelievable "carrier" riding on the signal.
(Ron Resnick, December 13, 2015)
