"RPS" wrote in message

This is inspired by the recent discussion on possible replacement for
my Spendor BC1's (thanks for all the comments in that thread):

Many of you have commented on a speaker being more or less
neutral/accurate than others.

If you were not present at the original recording session, with good
memory, how can you judge the accuracy of the reproduction?

You can't. Furthermore the audio production steps that follow the original
recording session can change the sound some more. Typically, the microphones
used for recording are NOT neutral.

I mean, I can tell that Spendor, Proac, and Dynaudio are sounding
different, but don't I need to be familiar with the actual original
sound to judge which one is accurate or uncolored?

I've made minimalist recordings using some of the most neutral microphones
known, along with a very neutral recorder.

I then played the recording back through my studio monitors, positioned at
the same location in the room where the instrument and mic were, when the
recording was made. The results were remarkably lifelike.