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In the Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker
Post Subject: Stereo and live soundPosted by drdna on: 2/10/2009
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 Joe Roberts wrote: |
| It is unnatural to think about these things while listening to live music, so why switch when listening to a stereo? |
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I think about these things because I am listening to a stereo. The recording and reproduction of the music is very different from live music. Technically, just two tiny point sources recorded from the giant three dimensional aspherical wavefront emanating from multiple directions of live music. It is a miracle it resembles anything like live music, actually. Still, to me the goal is not to re-create live music, which is just impossible, but to reproduce as perfectly as possible the recording which was done in such a way as to connect the listener to the intent of the musical piece/performance.
I agree it is a mistake to get hung up on imaging as an end in itself, but it is a artifact of the process, and I am not going to say it is not related to making the correct connection. To have proper imaging is like saying: there is a door that allowed me to get to the next room of the house.
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