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"RobH"
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But then I wouldn't go to pop/rock events for quality sound.


And there you go, the most telling phrase of them all.
Yes, the sound quality at pop/rock concerts is always very poor and to
expect it to be "authentic" is daft.
However, I think I'm correct in thinking that the sound quality at, say,
an LSO concert it should be.


Why do you go to the concert if it isn't for the sound quality?
I go for different reasons for different music.
Do you expect to have the same experience if you go to the cinema to see
"Howard the Duck" or "Citizen Kane" ?


There must
be something else there that grabs you by the short and curlies. The
sound
may not be up to a sound system at home but the atmosphere, colours,
ambience overcome any sound issues.
Well, in the case of U2 at Wembley Stadium, it didn't.


Keith also made a telling remark - why are black and white movies so
good?
Just because I like watching B&W films and there are good & bad B&W
films is absolutely no reason to say the colour films are a better or
worse experience. I like to watch both.

Sctratches, bad contrast and no colour yet the movie can still pull
you in.
Within a few seconds of the movie starting you don't care about the
colour.
Watched any Laural and Hardy recently - was the humour spoilt because
of a
lack of colour and some scratchy sound?

For me, vinyl has a certain ambience about it that pulls me in to the
performance in a different way to cd. Yes, there are some scratches
and
colour but a certain 'feeling' is there that I find cd can't
reproduce.
If you want to listen to the "ambience" of vinyl you won't hear me
complaining.

I like to listen to music performed by "acoustic" instruments and they
don't particularly sound like LPs to my ear. Equally I've got 1950s
recordings which I don't expect to sound "authentic" either.




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RobH
The future's dim, the future's mono.