Hi Friends,
Today i just read a thread about class D amplifier, and it triggered a question again in me which i always had in my mind but never found any answer. (though i did not attempt to find aswell)
it is related to mini hifi systems like sony, philips etc, sometimes we call them as deck aswell. I remember long back i had listened (very short times however) to couple of systems like sony , philips at my friends / neighbors house. It looked attractive no doubt but i never got attracted to the music coming out of it. All those friends/neighbors used to increase the volume trying to impress. At that time i did not know anything about "hifi" and neither had this word in my dictionary. I did not have any grand amount of money to buy such decks which were costing rs. 15K to 25k at that time. i had a very small system from BPL which was rs. 3k only and ofcourse it did not output such grand and loud music as that as of those decks, but somehow i found that bpl more natural and satisfying. I used to question myself whether i was wrong because my music system was smaller and less expensive.
I am not saying all those decks were not great, but yes many of them did not good sound. They might be having boom-boom but not good tone and tonal balance.. somehow did not sound just right. And while listening to them our eyes used to turn to either the left speaker or the right speaker and never in middle. Probably people including me did not know the phantom center concept at that time, or, the sound was not coherent and phantom center was difficult for such systems. My doubt is why those music systems were so famous during those times but when we look back i find (and i think many of us) that they were not great. was it because they had class-D amplification, speakers were not great?
regards,
amit.
Today i just read a thread about class D amplifier, and it triggered a question again in me which i always had in my mind but never found any answer. (though i did not attempt to find aswell)
it is related to mini hifi systems like sony, philips etc, sometimes we call them as deck aswell. I remember long back i had listened (very short times however) to couple of systems like sony , philips at my friends / neighbors house. It looked attractive no doubt but i never got attracted to the music coming out of it. All those friends/neighbors used to increase the volume trying to impress. At that time i did not know anything about "hifi" and neither had this word in my dictionary. I did not have any grand amount of money to buy such decks which were costing rs. 15K to 25k at that time. i had a very small system from BPL which was rs. 3k only and ofcourse it did not output such grand and loud music as that as of those decks, but somehow i found that bpl more natural and satisfying. I used to question myself whether i was wrong because my music system was smaller and less expensive.
I am not saying all those decks were not great, but yes many of them did not good sound. They might be having boom-boom but not good tone and tonal balance.. somehow did not sound just right. And while listening to them our eyes used to turn to either the left speaker or the right speaker and never in middle. Probably people including me did not know the phantom center concept at that time, or, the sound was not coherent and phantom center was difficult for such systems. My doubt is why those music systems were so famous during those times but when we look back i find (and i think many of us) that they were not great. was it because they had class-D amplification, speakers were not great?
regards,
amit.