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Article #23Re: Auditioning equipment
From: Andrew Reilly
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:12
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:12
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On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 12:51:58 +1100, The Gadget Shop wrote: > Age article today on suggested TV/DVD/Audio auditioning techniques... > people agree? Seems mostly reasonable. Not sure about being able to imagine what the singer's wearing, but still... I'd just add that for music tests, the more instruments (generally) the better a system has to be to still resolve all or most of the instruments. So symphonic orchestral music can be a good test. Often has good dynamics too (i.e., has quiet movements between the loud ones), compared to pop music, which is usually uniformly loud. Unacompanied vocals are a good test too, once you've set the volume to match real life: humans seem to be particularly sensitive to how other human voices are supposed to sound. Spoken (as opposed to sung) is good too, if you can find it, for the same reason. All IMO, of course. I don't think that there's much in the way of hard and fast rules here. Since you would be shopping for yourself, it would make sense for your test material to contain stuff that you like... -- Andrew
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108c0a,6ecd1d7b811f0fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c0a,public X-Google-Thread: 1096eb,6ecd1d7b811f0fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1096eb,public X-Google-Thread: 108c16,6ecd1d7b811f0fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c16,public X-Google-Thread: f6b63,6ecd1d7b811f0fe3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6b63,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-07 00:12:35 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!abnormal.com!vicpull2.telstra.net!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Andrew Reilly <andrew@gurney.reilly.home> Subject: Re: Auditioning equipment Newsgroups: alt.tv,alt.video.dvd,aus.hi-fi,aus.audio-visual.home-cinema Reply-To: areilly@bigpond.net.au Organization: just me References: <b48qff$kgh$1@perki.connect.com.au> User-Agent: Pan/0.11.4 (Unix) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: "The Gadget Shop" <gadgets@jc---.com.au> Lines: 26 Message-ID: <SvY9a.30477$Xh1.85588@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:12:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.188.183 X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1047024754 144.132.188.183 (Fri, 07 Mar 2003 19:12:34 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 19:12:34 EST