[Laurence Payne]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:22:08 +0200, Boris Lau
wrote:

I have been fooled, and I've fooled others. The basic trick i've used is to
make a good close-miced recording of a small group performing in a room, and
then play the recording back in the same room from pretty good speakers in
the same general vicinity as the origional performance.

Well, yeah. But I'm still suspicious about that "close inspection part" ;-)

If you "closely inspect" a live performance, you'll find all kinds of
fault with it. Hopefully, the music and the performance take over
your attention so that all but gross technical imperfections are
masked.