Skjønner, det er fort gjort å få uønsket besøk av spøkelset
På generell basis har jeg alltid funnet Dali noe "kjedelig" i lydbildet, og etter å ha lest anmeldelsen av Epicon 6 fra
The Absolute Sound tror jeg at jeg skjønner hvorfor;
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As has been pointed out in TAS from the beginning, the heart of music tends to be in the midrange, and, to face the fact straight on, the midrange of the Epicon 6 is somewhat pushed back. In particular, the 1kHz to 2kHz octave and a bit above and below sound rather down in level. The speaker as a whole seems almost to exhibit some version of the “smiley face” EQ once so popular in the days when people routinely manipulated recordings— and audio systems—with analog EQ devices. This balance is in particular contrast with what seems almost to be a fad currently among speaker manufacturers as a whole to push the 1–2kHz region forward somewhat. Both sides of this have their points: Bring 1–2kHz up and the sound comes “out of the box” and certain types of vocal material are flattered.
Pull 1–2kHz down and there is a nice recession of the image, distancing over- recorded, too-forward material.
Ultimately, however, to my ears, the midrange needs to be neutrally balanced (I am not a fan of the fad for pushing it forward, either). Whatever flatteries of some type or another one can get by having a bit too much or, in the present case, too little of the 1–2kHz octave, one pays at least some price in natural timbre.
In particular, broadband music does not quite sound as it should on the Epicon 6s. It can sound attractive but it never comes across as completely correct in timbre.
Of course, one can EQ this region up and flatten the whole response. The speakers then sound better balanced. But midrange EQ of speakers really works best when it is a matter of very small tweaking of a balance with which one is basically happy to begin with. Making major shifts in balance by EQ is a tricky matter. The main point is that when the measured response of the Epicon 6 was flattened out, the sound changed a lot. This sort of broadband balance-change is really fairly major, though it may look small on a graph. It changes the sound of the music quite a bit.
The 1–2KHz suckout must have been a deliberate decision on the part of DALI, and I think many people will like it. So much material in the world is over-recorded that a bit of backing away from it can be all to the good. But the exact sound of instruments really is altered here. And even the apparent volume of notes can shift. On Moravec’s Debussy collection on Vox, one could notice in careful listening the slight droop in volume as he ran from below on up through the recessed range to the very top notes (which are higher than that, being 4186Hz), with the top notes coming back up in level.
This is not to say that the speaker is colored in the resonant sense. Actually, it sounds very smooth and non-resonant. What it does not sound is exactly flat.
While you may well like this, you should observe the effects carefully when you audition the speaker to be sure that you do."
Kort fortalt bør man vite hva man liker før man bruker mye penger på blindskudd