Level wrote on Thu, 13 January 2005 01:48 |
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Someone needs to get over themselves...I am a nice guy and I am humble. I do feel certain people need to be horse whipped to wake up and smell the fresh cut grass.
You folks should really get a'hold of this post, if you don't, you are more of the problem than any solution. I do mean it.
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Well, This grumpy messsage sounds like you got up on the wrong side of the bed today, and this contradicts your experience and contribution to the industry.
Any reasonable person has to admit that there is a 50/50 split in this industry over NS-10s, and that this discussion sometimes cuts across logic, science, and asthetics. This issue is also in no way off-topic to the original poster's question.
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Chasing the moving target of lowest-common-denominator consumer playback (audio/video/whatever) can be a losing game unless it is restricted to the QC stage, and even then the industry should have some common practice. This is where Auratones, NS-10s, boomboxes, car stereos, etc., are useful and essential, but IMO are not acceptable for production.
I agree that a speaker system for mastering purposes or critical exhibition probably has to cost a lot of money (this is obviously a relative term). A production system that from the realities of economics probably won't cost US$20k still can play reasonably flat from 20-20k Hz with 85 dB SPL + 20 dB of headroom, yet (again to agree with the OP) most music production is done with speakers that are either like NS-10s but not NS-10s, like Augsbergers but not Augsbergers, like 4311s but not...yet they still don't fill the basic need.
In an industry that is in a perpetual transition stage, we are in a particularly wild transision stage. We can acquire and deliver sounds with much more accuracy (and less fighting with noise and distortion) than ever before, yet we have to deliver the same stuff for both lower-fidelity playback than ever before in our lifetimes (bad webstreaming), higher-fidelity (SA-CD, etc.) and have it be effective for every listener. Speakers have to be respected, and I agree that they have been ignored/misusterstood/poorly-chosen.
I don't know that, for critical audio production work, we can choose a speaker for its
beauty, but I know we must choose it to agree with our version of the truth.