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April 19th, 2012, 09:59 AM
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Re: Model 19's on Ebay

Originally Posted by
cradeldorf
Personally I think it's straight off the CD and not really playing on the speakers...but that's just my opinion..
It is a relatively good audio recording compared to most videos of this type so I can see how you might think that. On my speakers here it does sound like a pretty good microphone recording as compared to many other videos of this type. Also, it's mono which makes sense because he says he plugged his microphone (singular) directly into his p.c.--so he's using one microphone to record a stereo source/stereo system. If it was straight off the CD it would almost always be stereo as it sounds like a relatively modern recording. Of course, there's no way to know with absolute certainty how the recording was made....

Originally Posted by
LICORNE
I listened to the video I might be wrong but it sounds like a bit of cross over fatigue. The mids are to high .
It has been my experience that whenever you put a microphone in front of a live band (or stereo system etc.) to get an "audience recording" that the resulting (direct, un-equalized) recording is usually kind of "midrangey" sounding for a variety of reasons including the fact that most microphones are not flat from 20-20,000 hz (they generally have somewhat of a rolled off response unless you're talking a VERY expensive microphone and even then due to placement etc. there are still issues with this type of recording setup). Not to mention you're kind of "chasing rainbows" trying to do any kind of critical evaluation of the sound of speakers or their crossovers with this type of video as your computer speakers are a real "bottleneck" (and the microphone is a bottleneck too as it adds it's own character to the recording). Even an ideally mic.d recording with high quality microphones will sound like your computer speakers and also be affected by (have some character from) the microphones used so trying to evaluate crossover fatigue on the speakers in the video by listening to them over your computer speakers is an iffy proposition at best. I still enjoy this kind of recording because it can sometimes, in a very rough/general way, give you some kind of idea of the character of the source speakers if you listen with high quality speakers or a nice pair of headphones plugged into your P.C. but you're still largely hearing the sound of your speakers/headphones and the mic. used. Basically, trying to do any kind of critical evaluation of speakers or their crossovers by listening to them through other speakers (and the mic. that was used) is not a good idea IMHO even though you sometimes feel you can tell something from this type of recording in a very general way....
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