Buster Mudd wrote:
wrote:
Gary Eickmeier wrote:
Imagine hiring a piano quartet or similar to come to your home and
perform in place of your system. Would they sound real or not? Stupid
question, right?
In this context yes. fact is if they overload the room they will not
sound real in the way we want things to sound real.
Umm...I'm going to let everyone chew on that phrase for a second: "they
will not sound real in the way we want things to sound real."
What's to chew on? Anyone with substantial experience with live music
knows exactly what I am talking about. There is a good reason
acousticians are involved in designing concert halls. There are obvious
reasons why orchestras don't play in rooms the size of your average
listening room. You put an instrument or an ensemble in a room that is
not big enough to handle the sound then you will get a sound that is
not the way we want it to be. So you will get a sound that is both real
and completely wrong.
I believe you have summarized the basic problem facing audiophiles
[sic] rather succinctly (whether intentional or not!).
Hardly. The basic problem most audiophiles face is affording what they
want.
Listeners don't
want "reality";
I think it wise that you don't speak for other audiophiles. Just
because I don't like the sound of live instruments overloading a room
doesn't mean I don't want realism.Big diffence between realism and
reality when reality sucks. The realism I seek in audio is that of live
music played in a good acoustic space. Is this idea new to you?
they want what they want...
I suppose that much is true.....
and then they want to
believe that *that's* "reality".
Wanting what one wants isn't reality? Please explain. you mean I don't
really want what I want? odd idea.
Scott