29-Mar-2018, 20:56
There was no intention, on my part, as the original poster, to mix up dissimilar things.
That is why, in my post, I referred to "a digital code only has three core components - intensity, frequency and time".
In fact, my suspicion is that the brain is less tolerant of timing errors than (relative) frequency errors - as I thought was audibly evident and demonstrable when the Devialet range was upgraded to Expert Pro status. As for overall intensity errors, I think this depends on the music. Peter Walker of Quad used to say there was only one correct volume for a piece of recorded music on certain equipment in a certain room, albeit this was generally thought to be a reference to only acoustic music recorded live.
My point really is that what is surprising in 4,300 threads on Devialet Chat, so maybe 50,000 posts, is that I cannot recall more than a handful of references to the tone controls on the Devialet, and even fewer references to the balance control, though I bet 10% of posters will have some channel imbalance because of room acoustics, which might be ameliorated, if not solved, with the balance control. For example, if you are in a room with a brick wall on one side and a studded wall on the other, there is likely to be some imbalance.
So I have some sympathy with Pim's post that the "conspiracy" to rubbish tone controls, back in the days of Quad and Sugden versus Naim and Exposure, has lingered on such that many of us feel that tone controls are out of bounds.
That is why, in my post, I referred to "a digital code only has three core components - intensity, frequency and time".
In fact, my suspicion is that the brain is less tolerant of timing errors than (relative) frequency errors - as I thought was audibly evident and demonstrable when the Devialet range was upgraded to Expert Pro status. As for overall intensity errors, I think this depends on the music. Peter Walker of Quad used to say there was only one correct volume for a piece of recorded music on certain equipment in a certain room, albeit this was generally thought to be a reference to only acoustic music recorded live.
My point really is that what is surprising in 4,300 threads on Devialet Chat, so maybe 50,000 posts, is that I cannot recall more than a handful of references to the tone controls on the Devialet, and even fewer references to the balance control, though I bet 10% of posters will have some channel imbalance because of room acoustics, which might be ameliorated, if not solved, with the balance control. For example, if you are in a room with a brick wall on one side and a studded wall on the other, there is likely to be some imbalance.
So I have some sympathy with Pim's post that the "conspiracy" to rubbish tone controls, back in the days of Quad and Sugden versus Naim and Exposure, has lingered on such that many of us feel that tone controls are out of bounds.
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