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Re: [Logic_Cafe] The 80's (was Re: Lawsuits (was M-Audio 88Pro))
2005-01-06 by James Ryan
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> On 06/01/2005, at 2:12 AM, Kamm Schreiner wrote:
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>> The point is, *all* speakers (and I do mean ALL) color the sound. There is no
>> such thing as a speaker with zero distortion and a perfectly flat 1 to
>> 100,000
>> Hz frequency response. Even where you place your speakers makes a difference.
>> What speaker sounds best is subjective.
>>
> And don't forget that the room you have them in has a HUGE bearing on what
> you will hear also. Even in the near field.
>
I heard the famous Les Paul give a speech at an AES convention a while back. As you may recall he pretty much invented multitrack recording, and was the pioneer of the electric guitar. It was his opinion that speakers simply don\u2019t work. That they are a completely unfaithful way of reproducing sound and that the engineers in the audience really aught to come up with a new paradigm.
That they should be ashamed to still be using this primitive technology. The man was not short on opinions. Then he picked up a guitar, and played his ass off, even with his right arm frozen at a right angle from an old car accident!
James