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You do have it pretty much. It is hard to describe other that saying that it sounds more as if you listening to a live performance in a proper setting with minimal or no sound reflections echos etc. It is as if you were present during the performance. Yes a single voice into a mike can have presence but it is not as notable as wide bandwidth audio over a greater range. My big chuckle with a lot of HiFi guys claiming they are flat to 15 KHz out is WHY? The human voice contains no, zero, nothing at 15 KHz so why do they feel the need to be that wide if all they are going to do is talk? The human voice contains nothing at 10 KHz and even much lower than that if you really want to get into useful frequencies of the human voice. Typically a womans high pitched scream is about 3 KHz. That's all believe it or not and most of her normal voice peaks out not much more than about 1.2 KHz. If you listen to a single 1.2 KHz tone it is easy to see that it is actually quite high as compared to voice. There are harmonics of course that add to tonal quality and timbre which is part of that "presence" thing however even those do not extend anywhere near as high as most "HiFi" operators claim they can transmit. A properly adjusted transmitter that allows faithful reproduction of 3 KHz will sound just as good as one that allows 15 KHz if all you are doing is transmitting human voice. Complex audio such as music with a wider freq. range and greater dynamic range is a different matter but we are talking voice are we not?

<blockquote data-quote="Captain Kilowatt" data-source="post: 548694" data-attributes="member: 39"><p>You do have it pretty much. It is hard to describe other that saying that it sounds more as if you listening to a live performance in a proper setting with minimal or no sound reflections echos etc. It is as if you were present during the performance. Yes a single voice into a mike can have presence but it is not as notable as wide bandwidth audio over a greater range. My big chuckle with a lot of HiFi guys claiming they are flat to 15 KHz out is WHY? The human voice contains no, zero, nothing at 15 KHz so why do they feel the need to be that wide if all they are going to do is talk? The human voice contains nothing at 10 KHz and even much lower than that if you really want to get into useful frequencies of the human voice. Typically a womans high pitched scream is about 3 KHz. That&#039;s all believe it or not and most of her normal voice peaks out not much more than about 1.2 KHz. If you listen to a single 1.2 KHz tone it is easy to see that it is actually quite high as compared to voice. There are harmonics of course that add to tonal quality and timbre which is part of that &quot;presence&quot; thing however even those do not extend anywhere near as high as most &quot;HiFi&quot; operators claim they can transmit. A properly adjusted transmitter that allows faithful reproduction of&nbsp; 3 KHz will sound just as good as one that allows 15 KHz if all you are doing is transmitting human voice. Complex audio such as music with a wider freq. range and greater dynamic range is a different matter but we are talking voice are we not?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 548694, member: 39"] You do have it pretty much. It is hard to describe other that saying that it sounds more as if you listening to a live performance in a proper setting with minimal or no sound reflections echos etc. It is as if you were present during the performance. Yes a single voice into a mike can have presence but it is not as notable as wide bandwidth audio over a greater range. My big chuckle with a lot of HiFi guys claiming they are flat to 15 KHz out is WHY? The human voice contains no, zero, nothing at 15 KHz so why do they feel the need to be that wide if all they are going to do is talk? The human voice contains nothing at 10 KHz and even much lower than that if you really want to get into useful frequencies of the human voice. Typically a womans high pitched scream is about 3 KHz. That's all believe it or not and most of her normal voice peaks out not much more than about 1.2 KHz. If you listen to a single 1.2 KHz tone it is easy to see that it is actually quite high as compared to voice. There are harmonics of course that add to tonal quality and timbre which is part of that "presence" thing however even those do not extend anywhere near as high as most "HiFi" operators claim they can transmit. A properly adjusted transmitter that allows faithful reproduction of 3 KHz will sound just as good as one that allows 15 KHz if all you are doing is transmitting human voice. Complex audio such as music with a wider freq. range and greater dynamic range is a different matter but we are talking voice are we not? [/QUOTE]

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