[geoff]

On 11/04/2019 1:07 AM, Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:

Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
The encoding is only one link in the chain, how many car radios give an
accurate stereo image?

That's the real problem. You're sitting way off-axis, the tweeters are
not pointed directly at you, you're either too far forward or too far back,
and you're in a glassy shell full of standing waves.

And the sad part is this is how most people listen to music.

Even sadder is that the beliefs expressed in this thread are now so
common amongst people who are well educated (by modern standards) in
music and sound production, that they don't realise they have lost touch
with the basics. Throughout the whole of their education and learning
processes, they have never been exposed to a good objective recording.




Yes sad indeed. And also that many have never heard a purely acoustic
performance - without microphones and PA speakers. And many don't even
realise that such musical expression exists !

But equally sad are those who suggest that anything other than that form
is valid musical expression, and that whatever tricks being used to
produce 'other' styles of recording are innately inferior. Though much
really i disposable flawed or whatever, all that is not 'natural' should
not be tarred with the same brush.

geoff