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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: About the Audio Neutrality.
Post Subject: Definitions and MeaningPosted by drdna on: 4/2/2007
 Romy the Cat wrote:
...Live Music and Reproduced Music are absolutely the same music... [but] ...Live Sound and Reproduced Sound are absolutely different animals... “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… Rgs, Romy the Cat
It sounds as if you are are relating neutrality to music in a roughly analogous way that people use the term transparency in relation to sound.  In my mind a system can be transparent without being neutral, however, as transparency to small signal details, etc. can bring one further from the music.  It is the certain indefinable things that happen to a system that allow the listener to cease to care about detail, transparency, distortion, etc (to me) that occur as the reproduced sound comes closer to the Music that I would define as absolute neutrality.  The tricky thing is trying to describe what occurs in systems that are not perfectly neutral in this respect?

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