[Audio Empire]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:51:19 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):

OTOH, you are correct about rock and some other forms of pop. These
performances were created in the studio where they were recorded,

Obviously only true of studio recordings.

Rock and pop groups still give regular live performances, and still
distribute recordings of those live performances.

Who said they didn't? And those concerts sound just like the studio
recordings except with the added audience response. They have to be that way.
The audience attends the concert to see and hear their favorite bands play
their favorite music and this music MUST sound to the live audience like it
does on the recordings the fans bought of that music.

and essentially only exist as an electronic waveform.

The same can be said of even minimal-miced orchestral performances.

That's wrong. Orchestral performances can exist without microphones, without
SR and indeed without electricity. IOW, they exist as a sound-field first.
Whatever a recording engineer/producer does with microphones is completely
after the fact and irrelevant to the music making. OTOH, rock performances
don't exist at all without these things. Solid body electric guitars make
almost no sound without their amplifier/speakers. Fender Rhodes pianos (and
other electronic keyboards) make, essentially NO sound without their
amps/speakers. Rock vocalists need a microphone to do what they do and the
performance, the way the audience hears it, does not even exist outside of
the mixing console. That's why, when on tour, rock groups have to take their
mixing consoles with them. The difference here, is that instead of the "mix"
going to a recorder, it goes to SR amps and speakers. That way, the audience
hears their favorite band playing their favorite songs in a way that sounds
just like the recordings of those songs.

IOW, I don't get your point.