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drdna wrote:

For stereo systems, we start with two small microphones with strictly limited ability to capture an acoustic musical event at a particular combination of phases, reflections, amplitudes, etc. in a relatively low-level voltage situation….

I very much disagree with this premise, in fact in my view it is a fundamentally erroneous premise. Many people (most of audio people) use the very same wrong assumption and it is quote bad. The same Vasyachkin at his site said:

“The signal chain has so many links in it - performer, instrument, microphone, A/D converter, equalizer/mixer/reverb/compressor/mastering engineer, D/A converter, amplifier, crossover, loudspeaker, cabinet, room, head transfer function, ear, brain ( to name a few ) that if you think you have it all figured out you are an idiot.”

What Vasyachkin said is also the manifestation of the very same and very essential erroneous premise as “drdna” proposed. Performer with his instrument and microphone is not the sores of “event”…

This wekk I am reading a DPoLS-related paper of a gentleman who said:

“Whereas replicating the original experiment – the singular musical experience - is clearly impossible, i.e. the problem structure is too complex, the play-back system should be able to replicate the degree of accuracy in the information processing by the recording-studio. Everything additional – I mean more resolving - is unnecessary and therefore worthless.”

The same mistake – the replicating the original experiment of what? The acoustic snapshot  of the performing space is something that defile musically in it’s entirety? Absolutely not!!!

A few years back Lechnitsky wrote a book about the new way playback systems assessment what he recognized a performing event as a “begin of the file” for a playback-made Claude  Shannon's communication bridge. Lechnitsky used the very same wrong premises.

Those all mistaken premises are the nectars from the same poison flowers: literally - a sonic event in performing avenue is NOT where “audio” starts.  I do not want to go into further explanations at this thread. In this thread Vasyachkin is bitching about anything and about nothing I would let him to do whatever he wants: this thread already annoys me: it all has no relation to horn-loaded ribbons and, in fact I have no idea what it is all about. Sometimes in future I would need to start a thread dedicated to the subject “Where audio communication chain starts” as I feel that audio people generally have very narrow view on this matter.

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