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Expectations?

I subscribe to the San Francisco Opera, and I also have a decent sized collection of opera recordings. And I've never expected the recordings to sound live. Some of them do do a good job of capturing hall ambience, but none of them sound exactly like the real thing. I never expected them to. I listen to them because I love the music, not because I want to transform my apartment into an opera house.

I recently upgraded from low-fi to mid-fi equipment, and at one of the high-end audio shops I went to, I had a discussion about this very thing with one of the guys who worked there. We were in total agreement. We both thought that folks who like classical and opera would be better off spending money on live performance tickets and subscriptions than on climbing to the pinnacle of the high-end audio equipment ladder. Because electronic audio equipment will never perfectly recreate live performance. It just isn't possible.

Jeffery


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