Paul wrote:

I couldn't argue with that but reason does tell me that the first and
most important area for examination must be the source (capture and
retrieval). I find it interesting that, at the other end of the
system, we again have immense scope for 'messing up' earlier good
work - another mechanical device.
While I haven't seen them mentioned in this group (perhaps a dirty
word?), what is your view on headphones?

For a moment, there, I thought you were going to say microphones. In a
universe of perfect fidelity, but where the living rooms are too small to
house a live orchestra, where does the aforementioned mechanical device, the
acoustic properties of which are bound by the laws of physics, fit in?

If microphones don't produce perfect fidelity, and if there is no
alternative means of converting sound into some sort of recording medium,
doesn't that mean that 'high fidelity' is actually concerned with 'listening
to microphones'?


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