Zitat von Wichernkantor im Beitrag #31

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I think the decisive adjustment screw is sonic authenticity, which once again crowns the high standard achieved in the high-end range. LG Michael

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Do you mean high-end audio equipment? The esoteric stuff?

Zitat von Wichernkantor im Beitrag #34

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Zitat von DigitalPipes im Beitrag #33

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The esoteric stuff?

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Quite a nice definition.

The difference between high end and a little bit higher end might be very narrow. And we come to a point, on which a little bit improvement in sound will cause expensive costs. That's what I certainly do not mean. An improved sound caused by the system of sound generator musst be affordable and payble for the normal user. Not only for the Rockefellers of this world.

LG
Michael

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I totally agree, and in most of the cases esoteric equipment is just marketing sorcery. Good DA converters, amps and drivers definitely contribute to a good sound. But if you look inside the organ, you can see names and codes of the drivers and it is easy to find out where they are produced and how much they cost. All but high end...

And in any case it makes not sense to mount Scan Speak or Seas drivers if you still place them firing between the organist legs... our ears are somewhere else (most of the time) and hi frequencies are highly directive so bye bye realism...

I also smile when I see and read of people getting the last Hauptwerk update because it can handle 96 kHz high-resolution samples (are there sets sampled in 96 kHz by the way?) without being aware that consumer grade audio cards have digital-to-analog stages that do not behave linearly and that cause massive intermodulation distortion in the audible range (oh, I forgot to mention that the difference between 44.1 or 48 kHz and 96 kHz is the ultrasonic component that cannot be heard by our ears...). So isn't this again marketing stardust?

Improved stops, audio tuning capabilities and better reverb is all that physis needs. Artificial intelligence generating high resolution modeled organ sound would be a lot of holy smoke...

I like this kind of discussion very much, learn a lot from it. Thanks Michael & Paolo!

Zitat von DigitalPipes im Beitrag #19

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My current physis experience shows me that the essential core organ sound is already excellent and does not need improvement.

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Indeed, nothwithstanding the not-so-high-end speakers of the organ itself, without internal reverb many voices sound much better.

Regards, PM