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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The Absolute Sound of Audio Idiocy.
Post Subject: The Goal of AudioPosted by drdna on: 8/7/2008
Romy,

I really do not understand this diatribe against the idea of the absolute sound.  You mention in fact your own idea of absolute tone.  Surely the goal of audio reproduction is to faithfully convey the portion of the emotional and acoustic information recorded by the microphones at the time of the original musical event?

Yes, it is much like playing telephone with two tin cans and a piece of string, but audio can remind us of the music we love like a photograph of a seashell reminds us of the ocean, which I think is not a bad thing.

How then shall we assess our efforts in audio?  While it is inexact to compare audio reproduction to live music, it frees us from the endless relativistic comparisons between different audio components, the audiophile trap.  Is it so wrong to cast off these chains?

Adrian

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