I think people don't realize just how difficult it would be to have a perfect replication of live music through any practical home audio system.
Consider playing a violin in someone's living room. The strings and f-holes point forward and up and slightly to one direction. However, the violin body does radiate sound in other directions on a frequency dependent basis. However, a trumpet played in the same room sends most of its sound directly forward. This would engage the room in a substantially different fashion. Multiply this by every different instrument (not forgetting voice) and one has a real stew on their hands. Any recording is going to capture sound from only one perspective. And, any speaker you have in your room, is going to radiate only in one fashion. It has no ability to change its radiation pattern to vary with each instrument. Similarly, arbitrary decisions need to be made by the recording engineer and artist when it comes to recording hall ambience. Since completely accurate replication is impossible, the alternative is to create an experience plausible enough to allow most people to have what fiction writers call a "willing suspension of disbelief". The problem is there will likely never be universal agreement as to what elements in what proportions best achieves that. -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85922 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
