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In Reply to: RE: A question about fidelity posted by beppe61 on December 11, 2014 at 08:06:22
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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Guitar amplifiers and their speakers are deliberately designed to distort. Recording this distortion and then playing it back through the same amplifier and speaker provides a double dose of distortion. I would think this would be obvious to someone like Ed Meitner. I question the accuracy of this story.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Hi and thanks a lot for the very interesting and valuable reply
Let me just reply between the lines to some passages"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."
Ok. I agree that the first transducer is what fixes the bar for sound quality. It seems quite obvious.
And then ? no more recorded music ?
I see instead this as a challenge to improve the quality of the mics
This is where the magic is
A well recorded (and played back) disk can give nice emotions" 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 "
sorry this is not what i meant
I meant to record digitally the sound coming out from the electric guitar and send it to the amp without any transducers in betweenThis said the best mics are masterpieces and subject of cult among sound engineers
This speaks a lot for the importance of these devices
And blessed are the mics that capture a nice copy of a real event for ever for people to enjoy it.
Thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
Edits: 12/14/14
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