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In Reply to: RE: Actually posted by Ralph on April 01, 2015 at 14:30:45
I celebrate your ability to disagree with me.
The point I was making is that I don't really care about what the music should "really" sound like as long as I am totally enjoying what I hear out of my own system.
I have 7 systems set up around my living envelope (SET, PP, tube, SS) and they all sound very different (much of the difference comes from the room environment, too). Nonetheless, I enjoy listening to them all.....at least 6 of them are not "truthful" but it doesn't matter to me.
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"The point I was making is that I don't really care about what the music should "really" sound like as long as I am totally enjoying what I hear out of my own system. '
That is the way most people feel about the subject but the original goal of the hobby, Hi-Fi, was to reproduce as accurately as possible the sound of the original event.
Since we can't control the recording process, reproducing the recording as accurately as possible is all we can do.
There is nothing wrong with having a different goal but having a different goal means that it's a different hobby.
I call it "Happy, Happy sound machine" with no real disrespect intended.
Tre'
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
LMAO. Happy Happy here!
I wouldn't call it a severe disagreement really. And I get what you are saying :)
I spend a lot of time in the recording studio and one thing that is abundantly clear is that you can't record what you can hear. Its as simple as that.
So as a result IMO/IME the best you can do is be true to the microphones (and then do your best to place them correctly).
While in the recording booth, usually one tends to think of the headphones as the most accurate, but if you rely on them you will get yourself in trouble pretty quick. They only work if the recording is strictly two microphones/two channels and that's all. Music recording is not about 'truth' the way a court of law might be (which is also debatable...). Its malleable in the way that mic placement yields different results and you have to sort out what is going to work best between the 'phones and the speakers. I do find though that tube mic preamps generally will sound better than solid state, as will a tube recorder, which trumps all things except direct to disc; all that and the amplifier choice is still down the road.
I do find though that even the best solid state amps will impart a brightness that does not otherwise exist in the recording or microphones. In that way I see almost any tube amp as more 'truthful' or accurate.
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