P Floding wrote:
There is probably no system today, and certainly not in anyone's home,
that can really fool us into believing that the we are at the recording
venue.
While I tend to agree with the literal comment here, I don't agree that
this is an admirable goal.
Probably because I've spent too much time inside recording studios.
I don't want an accurate reproduction of the recording studio.
It reminds me of the classic statement about not wanting to watch the
making of either sausage or laws.
Even if you are at the hall, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Filmore
East, etc. while they are making a recording -- what you hear there is
impossible to reproduce. Any site with a crowd of more than 20 or so
customers has a sound reproduction/reinforcement/enhancement system. And
what you hear in one seat is not what someone hears 10 feet away.
I tend to agree with The Absolute Sound's definition when the type of
music fits: the sound of real acoustic instruments in real space.
But most music doesn't fit those restrictions. The sound of an electric
guitar is the sound of the guitar and its amp, which includes the
distortion of the amp's tubes, and how the speaker does not properly
connect to the air.
I have never heard a system, no matter how "hi fi" reproduce the sound
of sitting one row in front of four trumpets playing big band jazz while
I played my trombone. I've heard pretty good approximations, but never
anything that sounds like it really sounds.
I believe that you can not reproduce a symphonic orchestra in a room
that will fit inside a house, unless it is far bigger than any house
that I've ever been in.
I have heard systems that can make it sound like a small group is in the
room when playing bluegrass, or solo guitar, or a jazz trio. At least to
the point of a willing suspension of disbelief.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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