I hate when the high-end audio clueless start tossing around and misusing terms. I think in part traceable to the fact that these people have never experienced many of the attributes. Take for instance the term transparency. Transparency has nothing to do as the unwashed want to say with "faithfullness" to the original recording session. No. Transparency is all about reducing the noise floor in the system so one can visualize in the "minds eye"all the performers on the stage or in the studio . It is in my mind different than clarity that decribes the ability of the system to reveal the performer. Or in other words, the cloth over the performer as opposed to the veil over the stage. Where the breakthrough in transparency has been made is in a system's ability to full reveal the performers in the back of the stage equally as well as thost in the front of the soundstage.
Transparency is probably the single biggest change that has occured in high-end audio over the last decade. Yes, transparency is very obtain as it seems to be the net accumulation of everything in the system starting with the AC and equipment isolation and then continuing to the equipment and cabling, room acoustics and last but not least, even the cleanlinesss and quality of the connections (AC/IC/speakers). Even the speaker cabinet and crossover have a big impact on transparency. But when the planets are in alignment, that elusive ability brings us one giant step closer to glimpsing that original recording event-namely the sense of space, information and tonality. No longer do designers have to resort to exaggerating the upper midrange (Hyper Definition) to get more information or sense of space. As a result, everything sounds more natural and in place.
Transparency is probably the single biggest change that has occured in high-end audio over the last decade. Yes, transparency is very obtain as it seems to be the net accumulation of everything in the system starting with the AC and equipment isolation and then continuing to the equipment and cabling, room acoustics and last but not least, even the cleanlinesss and quality of the connections (AC/IC/speakers). Even the speaker cabinet and crossover have a big impact on transparency. But when the planets are in alignment, that elusive ability brings us one giant step closer to glimpsing that original recording event-namely the sense of space, information and tonality. No longer do designers have to resort to exaggerating the upper midrange (Hyper Definition) to get more information or sense of space. As a result, everything sounds more natural and in place.
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