What is the point of expensive CD players?

**Dave Plowman (News)** · November 14th 17, 12:45 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

In article ,
RJH wrote:
At least with a good quality CD it does sound a bit like the real
thing - but how many people go to live concerts (I'm thinking
classical in any form, jazz, big band or MoR here) these days to know
what real instruments actually sound like?

'A bit'? In my experience of mainly rock/pop, nothing like a live
performance. Even if a domestic hifi could achieve the volume levels,
it'd take a heck of system (and room) to reproduce the bass etc and
'venue' acoustics of live music.

You'd hardly ever set out to record a live gig as heard from the audience.
The trend is to make it as close to a studio session as possible.

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**RJH[_4_]** · November 15th 17, 04:54 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

On 14/11/2017 13:45, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
RJH wrote:
At least with a good quality CD it does sound a bit like the real
thing - but how many people go to live concerts (I'm thinking
classical in any form, jazz, big band or MoR here) these days to know
what real instruments actually sound like?

'A bit'? In my experience of mainly rock/pop, nothing like a live
performance. Even if a domestic hifi could achieve the volume levels,
it'd take a heck of system (and room) to reproduce the bass etc and
'venue' acoustics of live music.

You'd hardly ever set out to record a live gig as heard from the audience.
The trend is to make it as close to a studio session as possible.

Yes of course - partly my point in fact. You wouldn't want a version of
the live performance as experienced.

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Cheers, Rob

**Jim Lesurf[_2_]** · November 16th 17, 08:38 AM posted to uk.rec.audio

In article , RJH
wrote:

Yes of course - partly my point in fact. You wouldn't want a version of
the live performance as experienced.

Yet when I listen to a R3 broadcast from the RAH, RFH, etc, I want a sound
at home which is as similar as I can get to what I hear when I was there.

So not all events or listeners are the same. And not all recording
engineers/producers will have the same aims.

It's Bob's apparent lack of realising this which has puzzled me.

Jim

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