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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The elusive “absolute tone”.
Post Subject: Aesthetic bliss/gestalt by way of aural cuesPosted by Paul S on: 11/9/2007
I think the most profound statement I have seen in this site is to the effect that we should expect the same things from reproduced music that we expect from live music. Of course this means the aesthetic experience rather than a line item, verbetum "perfect" re-rendering of of the "original". Yet, one is still left with the choices of which aural cues to strive for and which to slight, since we are bound to compromise, while to totally ignore the "original" event is to court chaos. It can also be argued that a "good" system can not only render clearly the difference between instruments and musicians but it must also [re]produce well enough in the way of frequency range, pitch and dynamics that there is at least some sense of verisimilitude. While some listeners can differentiate over the telephone, few would confuse the telephone for live music, and I would not in any case be happy or musically fulfilled with telephone quality [re]production.
The idea of the idea is very powerful everywhere, and it certainly seems to work with hi-fi. I always think of this as striving for sound that is "reminiscent", that somehow conjurs up for me the same sense
and feelings I get from live music. And I also think this does involve some sort of "reproduction".
Best regards,
Paul SRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site