Clean headroom is where the reality lives. It is certainly an issue I wish the measurement crowd would figure out as it is vastly more important than flat frequency response, dispersion etc from my perspective. The more dynamically capable the system the better it tends to sound at low level IME (e.g. A good truly dynamically capable system should sound clean and unflustered at any level you need without changing in character at all. Any system that ‘comes alive’ at a certain volume level is likely showing some signs of this compression/limiting IMHO. the ‘punch’ of a small driver running out of steam giving an edge that is mistaken for ‘drum attack’ or whatever. One thing that has often quietly amused me as someone with some experience of studio recording/outboard FX etc is how often some audiophiles mistake what is to my ears obvious compression for ‘dynamics’, e.g.
It is also a factor the measurement evangelists seem to entirely ignore focusing instead on largely meaningless frequency charts. High enough in frequency to get above the human hearing " auditory masking" range of the low frequency signals.Ĭlick to expand.Micro/macro transients sound like clunky reviewer speak/ad copy to me, though there is no doubt clean dynamic range is a fundamental to good sound. If this is right then loudspeakers with low levels of intermodulation distortion may produce better "micro transients" even though we are not really dealing here with low-level transients but actually with low-level detail. I speculate that high enough levels of loudspeaker intermodulation distortion from low frequency high level transient signals could raise the noise floor at high frequencies enough to interfere with the clarity or audibility of high frequency low level transient signals. Music typically has high signal levels at low frequencies and low signal levels at high frequencies.
I speculate the term may refer to the clarity and audibility of small mid-to-high-frequency signals reproduced by a loudspeaker in the presence of large low frequency signals. Click to expand.Possibly - but it depends what "micro transients" really means and AFAICS the term is not broadly understood.
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