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It is absolutely amassing how many audio people misunderstand Audio Neutrality. The Audio Neutrality is one of the most import moments of audio reproduction and still it is misunderstood. Not good!

The very first step to begin understanding of real and the only true meaning of Audio Neutrality is to begin understanding that Live Music and Reproduced Music are absolutely the same music. It is very hard for many people or even imposable for many to “get” it but it is OK – there are a lot of clueless people in audio. Music is not what Sound produces but what awareness consumes and that amplitude of music consumptions for any properly organized listeners is identical during live concert or during playback. (In fact some trains musicians could do it just by reading the notes score)

Hold on: do I say that there is no difference between Live musical event and Reproduced event? Of course not! The difference is huge but the difference is not in Music domain but in Sound. Live Sound and Reproduced Sound are absolutely different animals and even they live according some different principles. So, what in context of above said would be the Audio Neutrality?

Well, to undusted Audio Neutrality it is very imperative to understand that Audio Neutrality does not exist “as is” and the Audio Neutrality might be applied ONLY as Neutrality toward to something. So, the Audio Neutrality is an impartiality of Reproduced (???) relative to (???). By addressing the question marks you will discover what the real Audio Neutrality is. Here are a few further pointers that I would like to drop in order to lead you to the answer.

“Neutrality” might be applied to a whole event or to the collection of the properties. Music, as a subject, is more atomic and none-dissectible entity, in contrary to Sound that most likely in our awareness would be identified by multitude of properties. If you are wiling to approach the Audio Neutrality form a fruitful direction then try to “get” that Neutrality as a reference to “total” auditable experience. A “neutrality does not deal with individuals properties (it is what transparency does) but Audio Neutrality applied only toward an undividable-whole, complex and composite entities…

Well, I have said enough, even slightly more then I intended, and an able person might take his/her own thinking further up…

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