"Andre Jute" wrote in message
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We should ask two questions:

1. What is fidelity? This is usually taken to be a window
on the concert hall.

Not a bad question.

Ironically, almost none of the audiofools who rant and rave about concert
hall realism were in the concert hall when the recording in question was
made. Most of them have never been in that particular concert hall in their
lives. Not that many of them have even heard that particular orchestra play
live.

Oh, I get it - "All concert halls sound the same" and "All orchestras sound
the same".

;-)

2. Have we achieved fidelity? The answer is generally
agreed to be negative, so that we talk about the closest
approach to the concert hall, and invariably speak only
of qualified fidelity, as in "high" fidelity.

See above.

Snip the usual Luddite propaganda