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These are my thoughts on the 27th session.  

Audition of Planot Speaker Prototype 3     March 27, 2008

In looking over the notes the characteristics that stand out overall are the clean, well defined sound of the various instruments and the vocal tracks. This applies, instrument wise, to either the solo or ensemble performance. The same is true of vocals, solo or multi-voice. 

It should be noted that these selections were chosen for their excellent recorded quality and the complexity of the music. From my first listening to the earlier prototypes the improvement I heard in this most recent prototype is at least quite remarkable. As this is a work in progress and the audition was done in a mono configuration one can only wonder what awaits when the work is complete and a stereo configuration is presented.  

 The only track that did not meet my expectations was Peggy Lee’s Fever. After some thought and discussion the problem was not with the recording but with my expectations. Since I first heard Peggy do the tune some 56 or 57 years ago, and uncounted times since, it presents a strong case for my listening for what I wanted to hear-again-and did not. Sound great, arrangement fine,all good. I need to listen again without the bias.

I was especially impressed with the clear well defined “you are there” reproduction of the percussion, both as solo and as part of a traditional rhythm section. 

Guitar and double bass were very good. The sound was well defined without any smearing of the notes. This was most evident in the tracks containing plucked and bowed double bass. The decay of a sustained plucked bass note a joy to hear.

The blues rendition using harmonica and organ was awesome. Even in full cry the individual instruments could be picked out and followed. A well recorded and reproduced track.

As for sound stage and instrument placement and vocalist position relative to musicians I am a loss to explain. Based on the mono (or the R+L summed stereo) input source and the physical presence of an obvious single radiating source spacial location is not an expected result. However it is there! It’s an artifact. Maybe. Of what?  Is it a fluke of the listening environment? Figment of the imagination? Maybe all those and more but whatever the source or cause multiple auditions have all produced the same results. Water trickling low left, front to back, bees flying by, high left ( these from an environmental track, not my imagination), vocalist behind the source about a foot and the ensemble behind them with the rhythm on the right, half way to the front.

D.M.

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