[Arny Krueger]

"Harry Lavo" wrote in message


When you start finding that you stop listening to the
"electronics" and start suspending disbelief and
listening to the music as if the musicians are playing
"right there".

IOW, try to be as delusional as Harry is.

Anybody with meaningful real world experience recording live music knows
better.

The total illusion of liveness evaporates as soon as the music hits the
mics.

Reason why is that there is no such thing as just one live sound. Move your
ears around the room. There are as many distinct live sounds as there are
distinct places to put your ears. No two performances are the same. There
are as many sounds of a piece of music as there are performances.

How dogmatic posturers like Lavo know that a certain sound is *the* live
sound must escape the comprehension of anybody who actually listens to live
music and has the opportunity to compare a live performance to any
particular recording of it.

So, what is the SOTA of recording today? One steps back and trys to imagine
what a favorable gestalt of a given live performance would be, and seeks to
deliver it through the audio systems to the listeners who are your primary
market.