"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:
I tend to evaluate speakers and musical instruments with
the same criteria. It's not at all about "high fidelity"

Nothing new there, then, from you.

(if it
were, then Tannoy, B+W, JBL etc would all sound the
same) but producing a sound which presents in the best
posible/most pleasing way the music to which you wish
to listen (or in the case of a musical instrument - to play)

So you don't object to the sound from your 'ideal' instrument being
altered by your loudspeakers?

You seem to have (perhaps deliberately?) missed the point.
Having found your ideal instrument (say for example the artist,
producer and engineer choose from a Guild, Gretsch, Martin or
Olson guitar) you then are faced with finding a speaker that
can reproduce your choice as it should be reproduced.
Speakers (mics too) are definately horses for courses.
There is no one-make-fits-all, even though there are some
pretty good all-rounders.


Just how many pairs of speakers do you have, Iain, to allow you to
'evaluate' the best ones for a particular task?

For my personal use I have three pairs, Tannoy, Kef and JBL.
They all excel in different ways with different material. It is
no coincidence that material recorded on JBLs usually sounds
best when replayed on them:-)


Iain
Relastivity for musicians EW = Fb