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The question is, Romy, is it like reproduction where two parents get together and make a little one or is it like Dolly the sheep?

Another example of a reproduction is in the art world.  Here you frequently see "reproductions" of famous art works from past masters, some of which have been so good as to fool even experts, right down to the pigments and aging of components used in this reproduction.  To the untrained (and sometimes trained!) it IS the original.  Others are merely lithographs of originals and easily distinguished from the original even by someone who has never seen the original before.  Audio reproduction to me is more like this where the less the system and the recording impose their signatures on the event the more it comes to be like the original event (assuming the recording is a natural one to begin with and not a studio mishmash).  The finest reproduction I have heard was close enough to a real event in sound that with eyes closed you could believe that it was real even though you knew it wasn't.  Then a slight imperfection or two intrude to remind you, sonically, that it isn't but it sure was close!

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