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In the Thread: Closer to the musicians - closer to the music?
Post Subject: You say tomato...Posted by drdna on: 10/6/2008
Musical enjoyment is very much a personal experience, a matter of taste, and a set of idiosyncratic goals and expectations. In a nearly pitch-dark nightclub with flashing strobe lights and watered down Jack Daniels and lager beer splashing liberally about the gyrating crowd, one hardly expects a crystal clear and sedate string quartet playing Vivaldi.
Different people have different musical goals (e.g., a booming beat that compels them to dance, emphasized bass and treble to make up for deficiencies in an inexpensive portable stereo, the tantalizing novelty of quadraphonic sound, etc.) and so different recordings with different production values are made.
One is not necessarily better that the other, though production is related to demand. If you are in the minority in terms of type of recording (i.e., minimalist audiophile recordings), you may be disappointed.
For myself, I acknowledge that there are different recording types for different goals and appreciate the music in terms of those goals.
As far as quadraphonic sound - what, you don't have a quadraphonic system? And NO quadraphonic records???? Well, the novelty of these things tends to fade quickly, and the listeners tend to return again and again to the basics. That at least does not change. SO, in this respect, I don't think we have anything to fear about music being lost.
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