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In Reply to: Well, I'm done posted by gkirkos on December 2, 2016 at 11:02:55:
"Great opportunity to compare to live sound, right?"Recorded sound intended for "typical" music listening is produced in several ways, depending on the goals. One recording may be produced to give a sense of the concert hall, while others may be produced to give a sense of a smaller room with seating for a few dozen or a couple hundred people, and others may be produced for other sonic/emotional goals. Within these approaches, various microphone choices/positioning and mixing/EQ-ing techniques are employed to achieve what the artist and producer decide is a good representation of what they want to present to the listener.
Only on very specialized recordings, where the sole intention is to capture the actual live sound of an individual instrument or small ensemble, does a comparison between live and recorded sound begin to be somewhat valid. Even in this case, the details of the recording environment and equipment are of extreme importance. In all other recordings, natural or artificial ambient sound interferes with presenting a natural sound via a sound reproduction system in another room.
In addition, even with a specialized recording designed to capture only the essence of the instrument - without room sound, there is another issue - one which I've hammered on for decades. That is: A loudspeaker has a given/defined dispersion pattern. It is set in stone, frequency by frequency. If it's down 12 dB at 5000 Hz at 90 degrees off axis, it's down 12 dB at 5000 Hz at 90 degrees off axis no matter what instrument is playing or how the recording was made. Real musical instruments have different sound radiation/dispersion patterns - they're not all the same!
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Edits: 12/06/16
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