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In Reply to: RE: "It's all about the music and the performance..." posted by genungo on July 28, 2015 at 07:17:09:
James Boyk (Professor at Caltech) once referred to himself as a "recordist" rather than a recording engineer.A recording engineer's job is to make a hit record so that everyone makes money, a recordist's job is to capture the sound of the event as truthfully as he can.
The "gimmicked" recording (Why Hi-Fi Experts Disagree) can sound "great" and be a lot of fun to listen to but they are not Hi-Fi.
IMO the only way to judge how good of a job a playback system is doing is to first know what acoustic instruments sound like and then play a non-gimmicked recording of same.
Most recordings in the world of pop are gimmicked.
Tre'
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Edits: 07/28/15
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- RE: "It's all about the music and the performance..." - Tre' 09:03:16 07/28/15 (61)
- Holt was mostly right about most things... - genungo 11:42:14 07/28/15 (59)
- RE: Holt was mostly right about most things... - Analog Scott 13:01:10 07/28/15 (58)
- RE: Twin fidelities - genungo 13:32:24 07/28/15 (57)
- RE: Twin fidelities - Analog Scott 14:30:12 07/28/15 (56)
- Informed Subjectivity - genungo 15:06:27 07/28/15 (55)
- RE: Informed Subjectivity - Analog Scott 15:21:52 07/28/15 (54)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - genungo 15:33:25 07/28/15 (53)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 15:47:13 07/28/15 (52)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - genungo 15:59:30 07/28/15 (51)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 17:12:07 07/28/15 (14)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - genungo 17:45:13 07/28/15 (13)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 18:40:16 07/28/15 (12)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - genungo 22:15:52 07/28/15 (10)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 22:54:57 07/28/15 (9)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Chris from Lafayette 12:24:53 07/29/15 (7)
- It's no use, Chris... - genungo 06:42:06 07/30/15 (0)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 13:08:59 07/29/15 (5)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Chris from Lafayette 19:11:12 07/29/15 (4)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - Analog Scott 19:38:43 07/29/15 (3)
- "But accuracy for the sake of accuracy is misguided" - Chris from Lafayette 11:11:50 07/30/15 (2)
- RE: "But accuracy for the sake of accuracy is misguided" - Analog Scott 11:56:22 07/30/15 (1)
- Yup! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 16:00:51 07/30/15 (0)
- Whatever, Scott... - genungo 23:14:32 07/28/15 (0)
- RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." - A.Wayne 19:32:59 07/28/15 (0)
- Great discussion - and I hope you don't mind my jumping in - Chris from Lafayette 17:02:04 07/28/15 (35)
- RE: Great discussion - and I hope you don't mind my jumping in - Analog Scott 17:30:12 07/28/15 (33)
- RE: Great discussion - and I hope you don't mind my jumping in - Chris from Lafayette 20:19:28 07/28/15 (32)
- I think the audiophile axiom of accuracy as a goal in audio needs to be questioned - Analog Scott 20:32:51 07/28/15 (31)
- Well-said and agreed. nt - David Smith 22:33:30 07/28/15 (0)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - genungo 20:49:50 07/28/15 (29)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - Analog Scott 20:54:09 07/28/15 (28)
- To an extent, I do. - vinyl survivor 00:03:08 07/29/15 (22)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Analog Scott 05:57:34 07/29/15 (20)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - vinyl survivor 13:12:05 07/29/15 (1)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Analog Scott 16:58:54 07/29/15 (0)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Chris from Lafayette 11:25:48 07/29/15 (17)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Analog Scott 22:05:06 07/29/15 (3)
- So you don't mind piano recordings with the treble on the right and bass on the left? [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 11:15:57 07/30/15 (2)
- RE: So you don't mind piano recordings with the treble on the right and bass on the left? [nt] - Analog Scott 12:45:42 07/30/15 (1)
- OK - If that's true, then I stand corrected [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 15:38:16 07/30/15 (0)
- Bingo - vinyl survivor 21:51:10 07/29/15 (0)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Analog Scott 13:16:33 07/29/15 (11)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Tre' 19:26:33 07/29/15 (1)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - Analog Scott 19:44:13 07/29/15 (0)
- Nobody wants an accurate rendering of bad sound - see my post above [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 19:15:12 07/29/15 (8)
- RE: Nobody wants an accurate rendering of bad sound - see my post above [nt] - Analog Scott 19:42:45 07/29/15 (7)
- OK - I'm going to use another word in preference to "bad" - Chris from Lafayette 11:46:18 07/30/15 (6)
- RE: OK - I'm going to use another word in preference to "bad" - Analog Scott 12:54:12 07/30/15 (5)
- What I LIKE about that Sawallisch/Philadelphia recording. . . - Chris from Lafayette 15:57:51 07/30/15 (4)
- RE: What I LIKE about that Sawallisch/Philadelphia recording. . . - Analog Scott 19:19:29 07/30/15 (3)
- I hear you, but. . . - Chris from Lafayette 00:10:51 07/31/15 (2)
- RE: I hear you, but. . . - Analog Scott 05:54:47 07/31/15 (1)
- Yes I'd seen that clip before and it's fascinating - Chris from Lafayette 11:54:54 07/31/15 (0)
- RE: To an extent, I do. - genungo 01:36:53 07/29/15 (0)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - genungo 21:50:36 07/28/15 (4)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - Analog Scott 22:05:49 07/28/15 (3)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - genungo 23:03:12 07/28/15 (2)
- RE: "I don't care about accuracy" - Analog Scott 23:11:35 07/28/15 (1)
- Good night - genungo 00:40:38 07/29/15 (0)
- RE: Great discussion - genungo 17:28:33 07/28/15 (0)
- RE: "It's all about the music and the performance..." - Analog Scott 09:49:32 07/28/15 (0)