SQ..what is it?

[MegaloJntariac 10+ year member]

I paid a local shop $60 to measure my system's SQL, came out around 18.8. Is that good?

WTF is SQL?

 

[marcotheclepto 10+ year member]

I paid a local shop $60 to measure my system's SQL, came out around 18.8. Is that good?

yes thats a great waste of money.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

I paid a local shop $60 to measure my system's SQL, came out around 18.8. Is that good?

I think they didn't carry a 2 somewhere.

 

[marcotheclepto 10+ year member]

WTF is SQL?

can i pm you some questions about staging? unless you were being sarcastic in your earlier post....

 

[gunz4me2 10+ year member]

WTF is SQL?

In MECA, it is the Sound Quality League. To those on this forum, it is an imaginary term used to suggest that their 140+ dB subwoofers have "Sound Quality" played "Loud".//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

alright noobcakes. this is the awnser:

sound quality is defined as fidelity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelity

fidelity is solely based on the idea that the original recording (after it is mixed ect,) is reproduced as close as possible when it is reproduced on another stereo. this means, however the mixer or recording was made - meaning instruments on the sound stage ect, should be exactly as it was done when it was created.

things are currently done mostly digitally with something like protools or the equivalent. one should be able to place the stereo in a anechoic chamber and record the music and be able to directly compare the recording to the original recording with almost no difference.

this is sound quality. the accurate and precise reproduction of the original recording. this is fact, there is no opinion on this.

as far as imaging and stage height, it should take common sense to realize that the recording was made with stereo panning and instrument placement. this should also inherently be recreated just because the play back is identical to the recording. as far as stage height goes - it is also common sense that we stand in front of a musician as music is played. ive never seen anyone who faces the same direction as the musician. so that is common sense as well.

none of this is subjective. none of this is something anyone is required to do. but this is not an argument. it is fact, sound quality is a high fidelity play back of the original recording, regardless of how the recording was made or who made it or what they wanted it to sound like... obviously they made it sound good or you would not be listening to it and that is the point, MUSIC is subjective. what you enjoy listening to is YOUR opinion, but sound quality is not your opinion. this is a totally different subject.

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

**** one.

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

So, you think just because your stuff is all "SQ" gear your system sounds good, or is it that someone else tell you it, or is it when they scoped it you found out. I make it sound as best I can, and that is good enough.

Everyone here wishes they have a rolling concert mobile in their car, but that just isn't possible sometimes. The music I listen to is meant to be played at like 145 dbs.

http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/08/is-heavy-metal-getting-too-loud/

That article pretty much sums up why most of these threads are absurd.

fidelity is solely based on the idea that the original recording (after it is mixed ect,) is reproduced as close as possible when it is reproduced on another stereo. this means, however the mixer or recording was made - meaning instruments on the sound stage ect, should be exactly as it was done when it was created.

So that being said the only way that music (the one in the link, Metallica) would sound good is distorted as it was intetended to sound right? I mean you said it isn't even debatable. I would personally eq it down a little, but I don't like distortion. They wanted that CD distorted, and you can google it yourself. Good ol distorted SQ right?

 

[MegaloJntariac 10+ year member]

can i pm you some questions about staging? unless you were being sarcastic in your earlier post....

I was serious in my earlier post. But I am not an SQ wizard. I am still learning. If you have issues with staging try posting in the Time Allignment thread that James Bang started, it has some good info in there...

I dont know how to use the PM system, sorry I am still new to this site.

 

[atsaubrey 10+ year member]

I was serious in my earlier post. But I am not an SQ wizard. I am still learning. If you have issues with staging try posting in the Time Allignment thread that James Bang started, it has some good info in there...
I dont know how to use the PM system, sorry I am still new to this site.

time allignment is both the best and worst thing to come to car audio IMO.

 

[MegaloJntariac 10+ year member]

time allignment is both the best and worst thing to come to car audio IMO.

I feel the same about Horns.

 

[atsaubrey 10+ year member]

I will be more than happy to explain my statement...care to explain yours?

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

So that being said the only way that music (the one in the link, Metallica) would sound good is distorted as it was intetended to sound right? I mean you said it isn't even debatable. I would personally eq it down a little, but I don't like distortion. They wanted that CD distorted, and you can google it yourself. Good ol distorted SQ right?

So you re-interpreting the original recording to fit your personal preference rather than reproduce the recording accurately is your definition of SQ? If the recording has distortion in it, yes reproducing distortion accurately is SQ. Why is this so hard to understand?

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

I didn't say it wasn't. I just wouldn't want to listen to it like that, because it sounds like shit. So, if you like your music to sound like shit then so be it. Have all the terrible sounding "SQ" you want.

 

[atsaubrey 10+ year member]

IMO of course this is what sucks about "true" SQ, your favorite bad is recorded so badly you cannot listen to it in your SQ car. Nickelback needs to get a better engineer!