Analogue Distortion & Noise

For 20 years we have been enjoying CD’s and the sonic benefits of digital sources. The complete absence of background noise that CD/DVD provides has removed one of the obstacles between the performance and the listener.

What is remarkable is that the hifi and home cinemas we use to play these digital sources are still analogue and so create noise and colouration that compromise the quality of our digital recordings.

Just how much colouration is being added by Digital to Analogue conversion and analogue amplification is obvious when you hear a recording you are familiar with played on a complete digital system.

When the signal is kept in the digital domain throughout the electronics far less is added or taken away to your music. Comparing all digital systems against semi digital or analogue alternatives is like comparing CD to tape.

Speaker Room Interaction

One of the most effective methods of tuning a hifi is by repositioning the speakers. Most people would agree that the best layout is to create an equilateral triangle with the speakers and listener, with the loudspeakers placed 12-24” off the rear wall.

While this may be the perfect location for speakers reproducing mid and high frequencies, this placement creates significant problems for low frequencies.

As low frequencies leave a speaker in all directions, the direct sounds that you hear from your speakers will always be accompanied by the sound that has left the rear of the speaker and has been reflected back off the rear wall. This echo blurs the initial signal and as it is delayed, also spoils your systems timing.

Percussion for example is simply not realistic because of your speakers’ location.

Room Acoustics

As increase of 6db sounds twice as loud to us. Most quality speakers are designed to reproduce sound within a 6db tolerance, which means that in a perfect room, with very good speakers’ one note should sound no more than twice as loud as the next.

Unfortunately the perfect listening does not exist and most rooms will create variations of more than 20db. With a hifi reproducing a musician playing the scales on the drums, with a 20db variance - one drum would sound more than 4 times louder the next.

The changes that a room’s acoustics makes mean that even the best hifi and home cinemas in the best acoustic spaces are far from accurate.

Lyngdorf – A Revolutionary Approach to Sound Reproduction

Only Lyngdorf music systems maintain an unbroken digital chain throughout their electronics. This reduces the distortion, noise and colouration that other hifi systems create – it’s like comparing CD with vinyl or tape.

Lyngdorf’s Boundary Woofers are placed in pairs, flat against the wall. In this position the direct and reflected sound they produce arrive at the listening position completely in time. The result is that you hear each bass note played only once rather than with a secondary echo spoiling its timing and impact.

Lyngdorf’s RoomPerfect is the worlds most advanced room correction system. While even the best audiophile system will typically vary 20db in most rooms, RoomPerfect reduces this to less than 2db for a truly accurate reproduction of your music.

Listening to music you are familiar with on a full Lyngdorf 2.2 music system is a revelation. With the fundamental errors that compromise all other systems removed you will hear detail and nuances in your music that until now had been hidden by the noise of your electronics and the distortion that your room’s acoustics have created.

To experience Lyngdorf’s 2.2 digital music systems contact Gecko 0845 262 2882.