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My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youThe rational things to do is to base one's conclusions on the most credible research that is available. Yes that student project can be disregarded. This paper, on the other hand pretty much gives a definitive answer and it shows that I am actually correct in asserting that electric guitar 'tone wood' is a myth.
https://physicae.ifi.unicamp.br/index.php/physicae/article/view/physicae.9.5
They should have done a waterfall chart for each body to show the frequency response over time, as that varies by material too. Acoustics is very much both a frequency domain and time domain field so it seems very odd to me to see something that misses out such a critical aspect Had I been reviewing or at the viva interview I'd have asked about that, it is very suspicious.
Another reference you've provided that contradicts your argument. NEXT! Preferably in English this time please.
One would think that if this was a well supported hypothesis you'd have been able to find more references, and better ones. You're zero for two now; at what point will you reconsider your opinion?
It's certainly not a "definitive" answer to the question---to be honest I doubt the original text actually says it is but subtleties tend to get butchered by translate.
I can see lots of obvious questions that I would ask about the methodology and results as presented in that paper but frankly it seems rude to pick apart work using Google translate and secondly I don't really care enough to get sucked further into the tedium.
Yeah, there are two schools of thought in the world of hi-fi. The 100% accurate camp and the musical camp. And the twain shall not meet.... I fall into the somewhere-in-between camp, I love music but want to hear as much of what was recorded as possible. Over time ones hearing dis-improves. Not much we can do about that but what we can hear, we hear and I want that range of sounds to sound as good as possible. Slapping an expensive cable into your system is unlikely to provide a major boost to the heard sound quality. As always a well setup hi-fi system, even of modest cost, will outperform a considerably more costly system that is thrown together. Setup starts at the wall mains socket and ends at your ears. That is all that you can control or have any influence over. I don't know anyone who has taken a well setup system and reverted to how it was before the setup was done.
The equalization of vinyl LPs is a minefield. At the beginning every major label had it's own response curve, Decca, Colombia, etc.etc. Then they met up and agreed to use the RIAA response curve. But instead of implementing the RIAA curve, most continued to use their 'own' response curve. This explains why some music from way back sounds thin or heavy or not 'right'. This was demonstrated to me a few years ago when the demonstrator used his own phono stage, it had selectable curves inclucing RIAA. Violins suddenly sounded like violins when the correct curve was used. Jaw dropping in fact.
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My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youWhat you are effectively saying that others can post whatever nonsense they please about 'tone wood', but I have no right of reply.
Sorry for the thread derail but I was wondering if Im the only one with this curious mental affliction?
The first mention of it is in the 4th post on page 2.
The funny thing is that I agree with you on a lot of the stuff you post, and you're right to be sceptical. But don't get back on the same old tired hobby-horse when the thread was *not* about that. (And nor is this post .)
It's good to be sceptical. It's bad to be so sceptical that you're also willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater and ignore evidence when it proves you wrong.
I'm sure I have hobby-horses too, by the way.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
You brought your tired, boorish soapboxing into the thread. No-one mentioned it before you. What's wrong with you that you're so able to revise history - even when it's all written down in front of you?
Here's where you did it:
http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1847841/#Comment_1847841
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
At the risk of (slightly?) derailing the thread again and talking of cognitive bias, this is worth a read and explains quite a lot:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jun/14/humanbehaviour
Indeed (and without a hint of irony) that's why it's called a hi-fi system
Enough now.