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In Reply to: RE: "As far as I'm concerned audio is there to serve my aesthetics not the other way around." posted by Analog Scott on July 29, 2015 at 19:38:43:
In the examples you've provided (Venezuela, Copley Hall), yes, I think we can agree that merely getting an accurate sound of those halls would be a pretty woeful endeavor. I think we also probably agree that there's a different sense in which the term "accuracy" can be used. It's this other sense of accuracy that might lead us to choose better halls, better instruments, better microphone placements, etc.
I don't know if you remember my post a few years ago about the time I saw the Vienna Philharmonic live at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. In one sense, it was an overwhelmingly beautiful sound. But in the most important sense (i.e., was the sound I was hearing the actual sound they were producing?), it was deceptive and scandalous - because what I was hearing was NOT the Vienna Philharmonic itself, but rather the Vienna Philharmonic as manipulated by some dweeb in the control room running the Constellation "virtual reality sound system" that some doofus decided to have installed in that hall. I will never attend a concert in Zellerbach again. (I'll put up with it for ballets, but NEVER for concerts!) You get my drift?
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Follow Ups
- "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)