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RE: A question about fidelity

You've already presumed to know the answers to your questions and have already drawn your conclusions from those presumtions.

In the Mar/Apr, 2009 issue of The Absolute Sound, editor-in-chief Robert Harley stated, "I believe that something catastrophic is occurring at the recording mic's diaphragms so that much of the music never makes it to the recording." Paraphrased.

Elsewhere, I think on their old website www.avguide.com, Harley explained that he came to that conclusion from an experiment that Ed Meitner of EMM Labs performed where he recorded a piece from an electric guitar's amp/speaker and then played back the recording through that same amp/speaker and the sound was nothing like the original.

So if you trust Meitner (why would you?), then your own presumptuous answers are incorrect and therefore your conclusions are also incorrect.

Harley used the word catastrophic and he's right. Something catastrophic is occurring.

Ed Meitner's experiment was simple. However simple it was, Meitner still overlooked a couple of fundamentals and therefore, IMO, derived at incorrect conclusions.

Nevertheless, Meitner, and then Harley both concluded that because of that experiment and since the playback sound was so vastly inferior to the original live sound both coming out of the same speaker, the catastrophic problem MUST lay with the recording mic's diaphram.

Yet, it can easily be demonstrated that the vast majority of the live music performance is indeed making it to the recording medium. And if that is the case, then Meitner and Harley are wrong in their speculations of the recording mic's diaphrams being the cause.

Therefore, I speculate that bg's speculative responses to his own questions are far more correct than Meitner's and Harley's speculative conclusions.

Good job, beppe61. Specutatively speaking. :)


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