"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:

"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.

Back pedalling are we? For a speaker to reproduce your favourite guitar
accurately it must add (or subtract) as little as possible

Absolutely. Record a Rickebacker fretless bass (5 string if
you can find one) with DI straight into the console. Listen
to it on the ESL. Dissapointing isn't it? What's happened to
the low B? Play it on a Tannoy Westminster, or a B+W
Nautilus 802D As the player said "Now you're cooking".

Record some spoken word, male (baritone) voice preferably.
The Tannoy makes a good job of it, but the ESL is closer to the
original -clearly more natural. Horses for courses.

*Horn broken. - Watch for finger.

Hope it wasn't a Lowther:-))

Iain