Tony L
Administrator
According to audioscience review these are typical of the tracks Toole uses
· Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car", Tracy Chapman
· Jennifer Warnes, "Bird on a Wire", Famous Blue Rain Coat
· James Taylor "That's Why I'm Here", “That’s Why I’m Here”
· Steely Dan “Cousin Dupree”, “ Two Against Nature”
· Paula Cole, “Tiger”,” This Fire”
· “Toy Soldier March”, Reference Recording
· Pink Noise (uncorrelated)
Mostly heavily “produced” and processed music with no objective reference - No speech, no opera, one classical piece, no choral music, the only acoustic piece - James Taylor - is most likely processed.. choose your colouration.
Interrsting point. Aside from the last two all close-mic’d studio recordings with added FX, i.e. ‘multi-track panned mono’. Don’t get me wrong, I like a few of the songs, but I’d far prefer to assess using a well recorded solo piano, string quartet or acoustic jazz recording.
Have you heard Quad electrostatics, or any other electrostatics?
I’ve been involved with HiFi for 40 years. I still can’t think of a speaker that would do better in a live vs recorded test of human speech.
Like the Martin Logans they would have been dismissed as they weren’t suitable for Harman’s very rigid test location. It is not a reference I would refer to, in fact far more can be learned from a copy of Gilbert Briggs’ wonderful ‘Loudspeakers’ book of the late 50s IMHO!