William Sommerwerck wrote:

What I'm really saying, though, is that since no speaker (reproduction) sounds
convincingly like an instrument (production), maybe we should concentrate on
making recordings we like the sound of & not be overly concerned that we
haven't achieved verisimilitude, which I maintain isn't achievable anyway.


It IS achievable, with existing technology.

No it isn't and not even approximately. First it could only
possibly work in the original room with nothing in it
having moved and even then it can't because there is
absolutely no way within the realm of the possible to
recreate the exact time varying pressure field at every
point in a room that existed there when generated in a
different way than by a loudspeaker. Too damn much
information by an enormous margin. Enormous isn't a big
enough word. All of that is required for versimilitude.

Plausible illusion is all that is possible and I doubt
anyone will complain if they are hearing something
believable and appropriate whether it is accurate or not.


Bob
--

"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein