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In Reply to: RE: Leo Beranek, Acoustics Designer and Internet Pioneer, Dies at 102 posted by -æ- on October 19, 2016 at 05:49:35
Yes, I love that quote. I have stated several times - I call it the Tweaker's Allegory of the Cave: "The belief of the the illusion of stereo reproduction depends greatly on the confidence that you have in your system."
The fact that stereo reproduction (at least when the goal the recreation of a live event in our living rooom) is always an illusion, created by flawed signals, engineered by artists in often effects the observations and behavior of even the most knowledgable of us.
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
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... that it's a zero-sum game:
X + Y = Z.
X is what the system brings
Y is what the mind fills in
Z is Music
The trick is that we can make Y whatever it needs to be.
Don't believe everything you think.
- Thomas E. Kida
filling in the same old stuff.
I think we tend to attempt to change the sound of our systems because of this.
Either the brain wants a new puzzle or some strange aspect of perception no longer allows the existing correction algorithm to satisfy ...
Who knows?
"The fact that stereo reproduction (at least when the goal the recreation of a live event in our living rooom) is always an illusion, created by flawed signals, engineered by artists in often effects the observations and behavior of even the most knowledgable of us."
The dynamic range of the best sources is one hundredth of the dynamic range of live events. No one is pretending you can reproduce live sound in the living room.
Yes Dynamics are one aspect - though the best recording microphones can match the dynamics in a live event. But the signal they record is just a part of the sound intensity radiated by the instrument - the recording engineer can do his best to make the instrument sound "real" or they can (and often) choose not to - for a completely different effect.
I can't find the post - but several years back there was a "poll" as to why us "Audio Enthusiasts" participate in this "hobby". My memory serves me poorly these days, but I think that there was less than half doing it because we wanted to create a life-like event in our listening room.
A friend of mine, Keith Yates, years ago, used to hold live events at his stereo store. He related to me more than once how many audiophiles were not interested in live music.
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
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