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发表于 2008-6-9 10:39:39
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狗尾续貂的译文
看到lz帖子，不知动了哪根神经，就翻译了一下。小弟本来小学作文就不好，英文也差，对于hifi更是不甚了解，所以译文就很粗陋，有的就是点热情和膀子力气吧，抛砖引玉。还望lz不要见怪。不是谦虚，实话实话。希望lz还有各位前辈，给予斧正，帮助小弟在英文及hifi上有所进步。谢谢！
How to Evaluate Hi-Fi
Choosing a new audio system is an important issue; after all, it is an investment you will have to live with for many years to come.
如何评价Hi-Fi
选择一套新的音频系统是一个很重要的问题；毕竟那是一笔将要伴随你多年的投资。
When people invest in a product like ours, we feel it is important that we respect the customer, and not fall into the traditional marketing "trap", where a new "improved" product is launched each fall, where the warranty is very limited, and where the only way we care about the customer, is getting his money and getting him out of the door again.
当人们投资购买一件产品时，例如我们的产品，我们觉得我们为客户设想是很重要的，而不是传统的营销策略（如何运用手段卖出商品）。每年秋季当一件新“改进”的产品发布时，对它的保障是很有限的。并且我们唯一关心客户的问题是如何赚取他的钱并令他再出商店的门（此处不确定翻译是否正确）。
With this in mind we take a different approach to many of the established norms in the business. You have without doubt heard the expression "it is so good it reveals the poor quality of most recordings". But is that really a quality??!?!? Shouldn't it reveal the music contained in the recording - and reveal as much music as possible! For us, the answer to this is very clear, and with this in mind we have made the following simple rules for evaluating audio products:
1) Evaluate audio with music you like
2) Evaluate audio with both good and poor recordings
3) Listen to all kinds of music
4) Plug and Play
5) Avoid buying equipment to compensate for faults.
6) Rule the system, don't let the system rule you.
7) Enjoy music
伴随着这种思想，在销售过程中我们对许多已定制的规范采取另一种不同的方法来解释，处理。毫无疑问，你听到过类似这样的话，“该产品素质如此之高以至于令你发现大部分录音的缺陷”但是这真的是高素质吗？难道该器材不该还原所录制的音乐？并且尽可能多的还原吗？对我们来讲，答案是非常明确的，并且有了这种答案在心中，我们已经指定出以下用来评价音频产品的简则：
1. 用你所喜爱，偏好的音乐来评价
2. 同时运用高低两种不同质量的录音来评价
3. 听所有类型的音乐
4. 即插即用（不知道对不对，根据下文，其意思是相对于长时间煲机）
5. 避免购买器材用于弥补系统的缺点
6. 有你来掌控系统，而不是被其操控
7. 享受音乐
Rule 1) Many people take perfect recordings with them when they visit a dealer in search of a new system. Instead, you should take the music you like with you. After all, you do not play your CD's to impress the dealer with your high musical standards, but to find a system that plays the music you like. And rest assured, when the customers are out of the door, the dealer plays the music he likes as well!
规则一，许多人带着完美的录音制品到Hi-Fi器材店里去寻找新设备。相反，其实你应该带着你最喜爱的CD去做这件事。毕竟，你不是为了用你CD的高音乐素质来给销售人员留下深刻印象，而是去寻找一套用来播放你所喜爱的音乐的音频系统。实际上，当客户离开商店，销售人员也是会继续播放他所喜爱的音乐。
Rule 2) Avoid the trap of ending up with a system that can only play a few select recordings. Instead, focus on ending up with a system that can dig music out of even the poorest recordings, so you can play the music you want to hear, instead of the recordings you want to hear.
规则二，避免组建一个只能适用于播放一部分录音制品的系统。相反，而要致力于组建一套可以适用于更多录音制品的系统，甚至可以适用于最差的录音制品。这样你就可以用它来听你想要听的音乐，而不会受器材的限制，只能听那些高质量的录音。
Rule 3) Many people have a very select musical taste, but often experience that when they end up with a High-End system it can only play one kind of music, namely the preferred musical style of the owner. However, a true High-End system should be capable of playing all kind of music, enabling the owner to discover different kinds of music, as there is so much good music in all genres. A good system is a tool for discovering this and a way of broadening musical horizons.
规则三，许多人有很特别和局限的音乐品味，通常，当他们组建一个High-End系统，只适用于播放他们所喜爱的那种类型的音乐。但是，一套真正的High-End系统应该能够播放所有类型的音乐，能够叫它的拥有者去探索不同类型的音乐，因为所有流派的音乐类型中都有大量优秀的作品。一个好的系统是一个用来进行发现这些作品的工具，是一条拓宽自己音乐之旅视野的大道。
Rule 4) You are often told that products should warm up for weeks, and that you should not evaluate them before this period is over. However, the downside of this is that during a warm up period of several weeks you get used to a product, and as such partly loose your ability to evaluate it objectively. Therefore a good system should play music from the initial turn on. Obviously it will - and should - become better in time, but its musicality should be present almost from the beginning. a good system will simply provide you with even more musicality as time passes.
规则四，你经常会被告知，器材应该用几周的时间来煲机，并且你不应该在此之前来评价他们。但是，它的不好之处在于，在你煲机的几周里，你已经习惯该器材了，并且从客观角度讲，你也就部分失去评价该器材的能力。因此，一个好的系统应该从它开机就能够进入状态地播放音乐。很显然，随着时间器材将会，且应该会更加进去状态，但是作为一个好的音频系统，它的音乐素质应该在第一时间就能够几乎全部展现出来，并且之后会展现得更多。
Rule 5) A product is often bought to compensate for a problem in the system, say like buying a new "soft" sounding CD player, because the system sounds bright. However this is like the classic case of the man who goes to the doctor because his toe hurts, not realising that the problem is his shoe is too small. There is often another reason for this. Our experience is that when a system does not play musically, the listener starts listening for faults, exactly like when you see a boring film and start to notice the poor quality of the picture, whereas the opposite happens when you see a good film, so that you can even forget that it is in black and white!
规则五，人们通常会购买一件器材用来弥补系统整体的问题，例如，购买一个新的“软”（不知该如何用hifi术语来表达）声的CD机，因为整个系统声音过于明亮。这是一个常见的例子，一个人因为脚趾疼去看病，而没有意识到其原因是鞋太小了。还有另一个导致该问题的原因。我们的经验是当一个系统缺乏音乐性时，该系统的听者就开始专注于它的缺陷，就像当你在看一部无聊的电影，就会开始注意它不好的画质一样。然而，相反的情况也会发生，当你在欣赏一部好的影片的时候，你甚至会忘掉它是一部黑白片。
Rule 6) Many owners of audio systems are easily impressed with the largest, most powerful audio equipment, and end up with a system that looks like Launch Control at Cape Canaveral. However, if size was everything, we would all be driving trucks!
A good system is a system that not only you, but also your partner will cherish. After all, where is the fun in sitting in front of your system and knowing that your partner absolutely loathes your choice of equipment? Choose a system that everyone can live with, as this will allow all of you to share the passion of music, and will make music a natural gathering point for the family.
规则六，许多音频系统的拥有者会轻易地对最大，最有冲击力的设备留有印象。并会最终组建一套看起来类似Cape Canaveral（似乎是一个美国发生卫星航天飞机的控制中心）发射控制台一样的系统。但是，假如尺寸意味着一切，我们都将会去开大卡车了。
一个好的系统应该是一个不仅你喜爱，而且你的同伴也喜爱的系统。（这里有些绕口，不逐字翻译了，似乎和前文的小标题有些不符。大意就是评价和组建系统时，不仅要考虑自己，还要兼顾同伴，家人的口味，爱好。）
Rule 7) In real life you go to a concert to listen to music and have a musical experience. In reality the same should be the case with your audio system; the music should be what moves you. Often people end up only listening to the Hi-Fi, they place the artist on the sound-stage etc etc, but they actually end up choosing to listen to the best recordings, instead of the best music possible, even though the music was the reason why they bought an audio system.
规则七，在现实生活中，你去音乐会听音乐从而去经历一场音乐之旅。在音频系统上，也是同样的道理；音乐应该是用来打动你的。通常人们最终只会去听Hi-Fi级的乐曲，他们把音乐家奉若神明，但是他们实际上却只会选择去听最佳录音的制品，而并非去欣赏最好的音乐，他们忘掉了自己购买音频设备是为了欣赏音乐本身的初衷。 |
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