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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman" wrote in message

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Arny Krueger wrote:

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Much of the current art of audio production is dedicated to getting a
preferred sound that may be nothing like the live performance.

Which is why, IMHO, it is unreasonable to use live music as a
reference for judging how close to accurate a systems reproduction
is.

In general that seems to be a pretty well-supported point.

Those of us who record our own, can differ.

With any given CD (assuming you weren't present at the recording)
the listener does not know how the information on the disc actually
sounds.

Obviously untrue if the listener is a LP bigot! ;-) These guys just know
what the information on the disc actually sounds like. ;-)

You may assume that, for example, a violin should sound like
a violin, but even ignoring the fact that individual instruments
sound different, you don't know if the information on a particular
recording is, by design or through incompetence, an exact replica of
the original sound.

I totally agree. Furthermore, if you go out of your way to make a nice
accurate recording of a violin, a lot of music lovers and engineers will
tell you it sounds dead and lifeless, or something like that.