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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: It takes balls to shop (never mind the nuts)
Post Subject: The Original SoundPosted by drdna on: 12/27/2006
 Paul S wrote:
I don’t know what other people respond to as “music”, but I certainly regard sound itself as very important... I do not get an analogous art fix from looking at, say, prints of Pollocks’ paintings, compared to looking at the originals... I am always amused when people mention musicians in the context of audio... Eventually he [a musician] put together the system he was looking/listening for, and IMO it sucked.


To me the most important thing is to intuit, to feel, to sense, what the musicians were thinking and feeling that moved them to perform just as they did at the time of the recording.  To be successful in musical reproduction for me is to be brought closer to the original musical event because THAT TIME is where the ideas and emotions are conveyed.  Every recording of a recording gets hazier like a poorly recorded copy of a copy of a video tape of a birhtday party, compared to actually being at the party live. 

Paul gives an excellent example because musicians can easily pick up on things with little clues because they are so familiar with the music that the ideas are instantly conveyed even with what we might consider poor hi fi.  We poor audiophools need the special vacuum tubes because we have more difficulty getting close to the music.  Maybe we should all take some music lessons and learn to play an instrument; it might make it easier when we listen to the music to get to the core.

Adrian

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