Mid-Hi End
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"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.
Arny, of course, ignores the fact that for a decade I recorded dozens of
live concerts per year. And that as an audiophile, I have been listening to
high-end systems since the early '50's (my dad's JBL corner horn/Newcomb
amp/preamp system and Cook "Sounds of Our Times" and "Audiophile Records"
recordings). So I don't think I need lectures on what can/cannot be
captured through the recording process. Take Arny's advice for what it is
worth -- a screed.
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