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<!-- #thumb --> <p>Continuing with Audiophile terms I find <span>Transparency</span> a much used term that perhaps is a bit nebulous and easy to overuse. *One of the first things you notice about many of these terms is they are somewhat self descriptive; as any really good and valuable word should be.</p>
<p>Transparent means you can see through it and the opposite would be opaque; the middle would be translucent. *The greater the transparency the more “see through” qualities one is getting in the music.</p>
<p>The first time the term really struck home with me was with my first pair of electrostatic loudspeakers, the Quads, followed by Acoustats and then Martin Logans. *Yup, for a period in my life, I was all about electrostatic loudspeakers because they had a see-through like quality – an increase in transparency – like nothing I had heard before. *The fact that you had to hold your head in a vice and they didn’t have bass or dynamics didn’t bother me till later, but that’s another story.</p>
<p>If you’ve ever had the opportunity to hear a really great pair of electrostats you’ll know what transparency means. *One of the first tracks I remember hearing on an electrostat was from a Sheffield Direct To Disc recording of Lincoln Mayorga playing Stevie Wonder’s cover of “You are the sunshine of my life”. *That was a memorable cut and, for the first time, I could actually see through the group playing. *More than depth and separation of instruments, this transparency I am referring to was like lifting a veil that covered up the inner details of what I was hearing. *I could hear <span>into</span> the music. *And deeply.</p>
<p>Transparency is still a quality I look for in electronics.</p>
<p>Circuit elements I have found that detract from transparency are capacitors in the signal path and amplifying devices with too little current flow. *I have also discovered power supplies have a major impact on the transparency as does a measured increase in IM (intermodulation Distortion).</p>
<p>I hope this explanation helps your ability to see the word a little clearer.</p>
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<p>Transparent means you can see through it and the opposite would be opaque; the middle would be translucent. *The greater the transparency the more “see through” qualities one is getting in the music.</p>
<p>The first time the term really struck home with me was with my first pair of electrostatic loudspeakers, the Quads, followed by Acoustats and then Martin Logans. *Yup, for a period in my life, I was all about electrostatic loudspeakers because they had a see-through like quality – an increase in transparency – like nothing I had heard before. *The fact that you had to hold your head in a vice and they didn’t have bass or dynamics didn’t bother me till later, but that’s another story.</p>
<p>If you’ve ever had the opportunity to hear a really great pair of electrostats you’ll know what transparency means. *One of the first tracks I remember hearing on an electrostat was from a Sheffield Direct To Disc recording of Lincoln Mayorga playing Stevie Wonder’s cover of “You are the sunshine of my life”. *That was a memorable cut and, for the first time, I could actually see through the group playing. *More than depth and separation of instruments, this transparency I am referring to was like lifting a veil that covered up the inner details of what I was hearing. *I could hear <span>into</span> the music. *And deeply.</p>
<p>Transparency is still a quality I look for in electronics.</p>
<p>Circuit elements I have found that detract from transparency are capacitors in the signal path and amplifying devices with too little current flow. *I have also discovered power supplies have a major impact on the transparency as does a measured increase in IM (intermodulation Distortion).</p>
<p>I hope this explanation helps your ability to see the word a little clearer.</p>
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