In Reply to: Sure there is posted by E-Stat on November 28, 2016 at 12:25:52:
"I aver that I too, have a good notion of what the sound of live, unamplified music sounds like in its many flavors. I hear wifey play her baby grand on a regular basis. I went to the symphony last week."
great and did the symphony at the concert hall sound just like the wife playing the baby grand at home? I am quite sure they didn't. So which one was more "the live experience?"
"But we can recall what they put in print. Here is HP from issue 6:
"This magazine does have a philosophy: That recorded music should try to recreate the illusion of hearing music in a good hall"."
Ooooh look at that! "Hearing music IN A GOOD HALL" That would be what we would call a small subset of all Live music. Now let's look at what the other poster has been talking about. "the live experience" Quoted multiple times. Again, there is no such thing as "**THE** live experience." Every live experience is a unique one. And clearly when he was trying to speak for HP he missed a real real big qualifier. That being a "good concert hall." Huge issue with live sound.
"Having known HP for over thirty years, I can attest that is exactly what he preached for as long as I knew him. And hearing his systems convinced me that we could get close at times. :)"
Did he limit his qualifiers to good halls? No mention of the quality of the instruments or the quality of the playing or the quality of the seat one sits in in a "good hall?" All of those things matter just as much as the quality of the hall. Any discussion of the parameters of what constitutes a "good hall?" There isn't a clear line between "good halls" and all other halls. There is no singular sound for "good halls either. No two halls sound the same.
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- RE: Sure there is - Analog Scott 12:58:07 11/28/16 (32)
- RE: Sure there is - E-Stat 13:23:49 11/28/16 (31)
- "Any facsimile of a live experience works for me." - Analog Scott 13:29:48 11/28/16 (30)
- Fortunately - E-Stat 13:35:12 11/28/16 (29)
- " That assertion has nothing to do with either HP's concept or what I use as a reference." - Analog Scott 14:30:36 11/28/16 (28)
- RE: " That assertion has nothing to do with either HP's concept or what I use as a reference." - ahendler 06:27:20 11/29/16 (6)
- RE: " That assertion has nothing to do with either HP's concept or what I use as a reference." - Analog Scott 10:10:45 11/29/16 (5)
- And yet... - E-Stat 11:01:43 11/29/16 (1)
- RE: And yet... - Analog Scott 13:13:45 11/29/16 (0)
- RE: " That assertion has nothing to do with either HP's concept or what I use as a reference." - ahendler 10:35:41 11/29/16 (2)
- "I know crap when I hear it" - Analog Scott 13:17:43 11/29/16 (1)
- RE: "I know crap when I hear it" - ahendler 14:42:31 11/29/16 (0)
- RE: " That assertion has nothing to do with either HP's concept or what I use as a reference." - E-Stat 14:42:08 11/28/16 (20)
- RE: "That assertion has nothing to do with either HP's concept or what I use as a reference." - Analog Scott 17:20:44 11/28/16 (19)
- "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." - E-Stat 19:04:25 11/28/16 (18)
- RE: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." - Analog Scott 08:38:18 12/01/16 (17)
- RE: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." - E-Stat 10:18:43 12/01/16 (16)
- RE: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." - Analog Scott 14:40:50 12/01/16 (15)
- RE: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." - E-Stat 15:24:45 12/01/16 (14)
- RE: "It was painfully overloaded by the piano." - Analog Scott 16:10:57 12/01/16 (13)
- I'm going to end - E-Stat 16:21:16 12/01/16 (12)
- I figured as much - Analog Scott 16:36:22 12/01/16 (11)
- Once you turned - E-Stat 06:33:34 12/03/16 (10)
- Still dodging the questions. Nice try - Analog Scott 09:01:37 12/03/16 (9)
- I couldn't care less about your question - E-Stat 09:42:18 12/03/16 (8)
- Then why do you stay in the conversation? - Analog Scott 10:03:46 12/03/16 (7)
- Remind you - E-Stat 10:19:29 12/03/16 (6)
- Yet another post and no discussion about the subject. I admire your commitment to avoiding the subect - Analog Scott 10:34:05 12/03/16 (5)
- Subject was over long ago! - E-Stat 10:40:54 12/03/16 (4)
- and yet you keep posting and keep avoiding it at the same time - Analog Scott 10:52:01 12/03/16 (3)
- I enjoy humor! - E-Stat 11:06:30 12/03/16 (2)
- I enjoy humor too. - Analog Scott 11:34:26 12/03/16 (1)
- RE: I enjoy humor too. - E-Stat 12:03:23 12/03/16 (0)