Popular Post Albrecht Posted October 8, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2019 1 hour ago, barrows said: Yes, this is where I am at as well. And much of the reason for the original posting of the topic. While nice in concept, and a worthy goal, the ideal of the "Absolute Sound" does not really exist as a reliable reference in practice, and the best we can really do is make our systems sound as enjoyable as possible, playing all the types and recordings of the music we love. Right... We listen to recordings on our home stereo, - which are an "interpretation." When I was recording and producing my band's songs, - our focus was on doing what we needed to enhance the "song," - not to make the song sound like how we would play it live on stage. We never had 1/2 of the studio tools on stage that we would have available in the studio. Every CD is at least, (minimum), 5 different generations of what those instruments sounded like when we played them standing in front of the amplifiers, going to the 2" rough-mix tape. Finally, - don't know what your local Opera/Classical music venue acoustics are like. But I can tell you that the San Francisco OPERA house is a pile of SHITE for acoustics. I have never heard any "live event" at the SF Opera sound "good." What a garbage dump. The acoustics of recordings of Opera sound sooooo much better than that nightmare. And, - you don't get half-dead old housewives coughing and clapping and yelling "WOOT" at the most inappropriate times. Every Opera performance has a mic-ed PA, - and again, - I don't know about other places, - but the SF Opera PA is complete SHITE, - filled with noise, hissing, crackling, and over-driven "hot-to-tape" noise.... Blackmorec and barrows 1 1 Link to comment
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