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iloveyou
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 Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: privae sound |
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Hello,
I don't understand what private sound is...
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First of all,
you should know a good speaker does not have any private sound.
Thanks
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dragn
Joined: 17 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| I don't understand what private sound is... |
The word private can be used in numerous ways, and so I wouldn't understand what "private sound" is either, except for the fact that I took the trouble to go to Google and find the source and thus some information about the context. Now I get it. Here's the context:
First of all, you should know a good speaker does not have any private sound. The job of a speaker is to deliver the sound exactly the way it is in the source. It will not provide any extra sound. If it does, then it will not be considered a good speaker. If it makes the violin or string sound edgy or if it creates an artificial bass for the male voice, then also it will not be counted as an effective speaker.
There's your answer right there, and I am honestly not sure if I can explain it any more clearly than that. But I'll try. 
If you have something that's private, generally it's something that you own or control; it belongs to you and nobody else; it may be your own creation; it could be something that you alone make or produce.
So, if a speaker has some "private sound," it is actually making some sound of its own; it's creating sound all by itself, in addition to merely reproducing the source (CD, tape, whatever). It may be adding or altering some sounds in some way, rather than just faithfully reproducing what is there in the source. Thus, a good speaker shouldn't have any "private sound."
Hope this is clear.
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redset
Joined: 18 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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I just want to point out that I've never heard the term private sound used like this before (I know a little about sound engineering), and all the google hits for '"private sound" speaker' are either copies of the same article, or are referring to headphones, soundproofed rooms and so on (this is what I thought the title meant to be honest). I think this is a case of someone making up their own terminology!
I think people would usually refer to changes in the produced sound as colouration, while accurate sound reproduction is uncoloured or transparent. Honestly most speakers have some colour, it's what gives them their character - the speakers used in recording studios are called reference speakers/studio monitors and are designed to be as transparent as possible, so the engineers can hear exactly what's going on. Even these speakers have some colouration though - it's a limitation of the physical world.
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