[Neil[_9_]]

On 10/5/2015 7:16 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article , Neil wrote:
On 10/5/2015 1:15 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
While we can have some discussions about whether it should sound like
the listener is in the balcony or the third row, the basic reference
for the sound remains and we can readily make a comparison between
the recording and the real thing to see if things are getting better
or worse.

Perhaps, but they're still unmistakably different, and "better or worse"
is a matter of... popular conventions. ;-)

Popular conventions change, though... and if you make recordings based
on popular conventions, they are recordings that will sound dated in a
few years, the same way ping-pong stereo sounds dated today, the same way
aggressive plate reverb on vocals sounds dated.

Listen to some of the DG classical recordings of the eighties, with aggressive
sectional miking, everything moving around all the time... does not sound very
much like an orchestra and nobody would make a recording like that today.

But the standard of hall realism stays pretty much the same.
--scott

I understand and mostly agree with what you're saying. However, "hall
realism" is also in flux, and the conventions have changed over the
decades to accommodate technology and taste. Otherwise, we wouldn't have
many solo violinists that could be heard over the orchestral
accompaniment. ;-)

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Best regards,

Neil