Một trong những bài viết ,dài, hơi khó đọc. Người đọc hoàn toàn chịu trách nhiệm cá nhân. Dành cho những ai đã ngộ cái đạo audio God is in the Nuances Bài viết ở đây: http://www.stereophile.com/features/203/index.html mến chào
Bác MisterVu có thể túm lại cho em bằng mấy cái Gạch đầu dòng Những diều tâm đắc nhất cho em với nhé... Em cám ơn bác đã chia sẻ với anh em.
Tks Mr. Vu. Bài viết này dài nhưng...hay. Em nhặt vội mấy đoạn tâm đắc: No, there seems to be no reliably observable relationship between price and musical satisfaction. It seems that much of the high-end sound experience is just that: an experience of sound, not of music-generated emotion, and that many expensive high-end systems are not one iota better at generating a musical experience than all those down-market systems. Those listeners who had some experience of things hi-fi preferred the digital system, which they thought sounded better. Those participants without such experience preferred the analog system's sound. The general thrust of the hi-fi industry may be at odds with the emotional needs of the buying public. I don't want to hear where the musicians are on stage. I want to hear why they are on stage An experiment: Disconnect one speaker from your setup and listen to the sound of just the remaining speaker, preferably with a mono source. I'm sure that few so-called high-end speakers (and systems) will survive this test. Many will sound bland and anemic. Two such speakers sound just the same, but probably a little fuller, because with the usual practice of mixing bass sounds straight down the middle, doubling the radiating surface of the bass drivers and doubling the available amplifier power gives a perceived 3dB rise in relative bass level. But the speakers don't become more interesting. In my estimation, the writing style that prevails in current hi-fi journalism is an attempt to describe the sonic presentation as an abstraction from the listening experience, in an attempt to produce results that do not depend on a certain kind of music, but can be related to the perceived requirements of a given style of music. If a review states that a speaker has abrasive highs, it matters little if this observation was made while listening to massed violins or to a rock guitar. The assumption is that the reader then translates this observation to his own listening experience and decides if this particular aspect of music reproduction is important to his enjoyment of music or not. But the music escapes the detail; if the detail takes precedence, it is nothing but sound, a piece of sound. The music passes through it---if you stop to examine the detail, the music has already moved on. Of course, sound is the necessary medium for music. It's the sound that makes the music, not the notes. Still, by a mysterious paradox, fidelity to sound does not always coincide with fidelity to the emotion, which is the soul itself of music. If one wants to judge a hi-fi system, one tends to erroneously concentrate on purely sonic details---are the lower mids good and are the extreme highs easy on the ear? As if one would ask such questions in a concert. In a concert, there is no woofer, no tweeter, there are only musicians playing. When listening to a hi-fi system, it is they and only they one should be listening to. The High End has become too technocratic, too sure of itself, maybe even a little arrogant.
Em thấy câu này rất hay: I don't want to hear where the musicians are on stage. I want to hear why they are on stage
Thực ra từ lâu đã hiện diện 2 loại người nghe : người đam mê âm nhạc đơn thuần và Audiophile. Loại thứ nhất k bận tâm nhiều tới thiết bị,họ có thể thưởng thức say sưa,bất kể âm thanh ra sao và phát ra từ đâu. Còn các Audiophile,nhất là các Audio nervosa thì lại khác. Họ đặc biệt quan tâm tới "The way it sound",và nếu âm thanh k chuẩn thì họ mất hứng ngay. Cũng vì quá chú trọng tới âm thanh nên nhiều khi các audiophile tự làm khổ mình. Họ khó ngồi yên nghe nhạc được lâu mà tâm trí cứ lo Critical-thẩm định âm thanh,bị máy móc thiết bị ám ảnh. Âm thanh,thiết bị nhiều khi làm họ mất cả hứng thú nghe nhạc. Căn bệnh này của các Audiophile là điều nên tránh khi chơi Audio.
Trích dẫn: *There is no music, no matter how well recorded, that will tell you what you need to know about a piece of gear... **The harder you listen, the less you hear. Trang 7
