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This is essentially the 'guitar amplifier' argument.

I haven't seen Jenn or anyone else mention guitar amplifiers. I suggest
you try harder to stay on subject.

I mentioned guitar amplifiers, though I have to say that at this point
the context is a bit lost.

What I said was that I could repeatably recreate the tone I want on a
guitar amp; not an uncomplicated thing -- yet you'd be hard pressed to do
something like that with lab equipment. Lab equipment might tell you how
far off you are, but it's not going to tell you that you need more
presence or drive or how do you get there.

The point of that interjection into the conversation was to say that you
can measure equipment to death, but it's difficult to measure a real
musical instrument because invariably a microphone or some other thing
like this gets into the equation and what we have left in the end is ears
and instruments - something musicians are intimately familiar with.

Incidentally while I can't say I've really spent a lifetime at it, I'm
trained and somewhat travelled as a recording engineer (certified by Phil
York on an MCI 500 console). For me, music has been an end-to-end
experience. Live music. Studio music. Recordings. Mixdown sessions.
Cold pizza, warm beer, and pop tarts. The annoying girlfriends of pop
musicians. An aloof furry creature only known as "studio cat". I do
have to say I feel eminently qualified to say how "live" something
sounds. Most recordings struggle to become even a control-room
experience. If I can get there, I know my system is working right
because that's what the engineer built. Live is very hard. Worth the
trouble, but very hard indeed.

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stealthaxe