Mkuller wrote:
(Graeme Nattress) wrote:
But what if the original sound was warm, but the recording of it
sounded too bright. Adding some fake warmth will bring you closer to
the original sound.
What it really comes down to is what you prefer - an enjoyable, but
not necessarily accurate sound, or a closer to accurate sound that
might be not as enjoyable. It's a continuum of choices that you can
seriously bias by your choice of hifi equipment.
The question is "accurate compared to what?" Live music always sounds
euphonic. Those who are trying to reproduce the sound of live, unamplified
music as close as possible to the sound they remember hearing will chose a
sound as "accurate" that is euphonic (pleasing to the ears as is live music).
The same may be true of those making the recordings.
Those who define 'accuracy' differently will most likely chose something else.
Is it 'accurate' to sound of the master tape? Is the output signal 'accurate'
to the input signal?
Regards,
Mike
I'll repeat here what Siegfried Linkwitz wrote on his website:
My motto is "True to the original", which
means true to what has been placed on the storage medium be it CD, DAT
or whatever.
For those who may not be familiar with Dr. Linkwitz, he and Dr. Russ
Riley patented the Linkwitz-Riley crossover network for speakers. Both
were engineers at HP, and very serious audio hobbyists.