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In Reply to: RE: because "accuracy" is not defined and does not exist? -t posted by Sordidman on October 18, 2009 at 06:34:30
. . . as the most lifelike possible reproduction of the original recorded sonic event.
This has been the stated goal of hi-fi from the outset, and one to which many dedicted engineers and manufacturers have devoted their entire careers.
Perhaps it doesn't "exist" in an absolute sense (what does?), since we have not reached the point where the reproduced sound is utterly indistinguishable from the original, but the industry has come incrementally closer to this ideal since its inception, and has certainly come a LONG way from Edison's windup phonograph!
If accuracy does not "exist" as a worthy goal, why have so MANY designers of everytning from microphones to studio consoles to recording/mastering/disc pressing equipment to playback sources (analog or digital) to pre/power amplifiers to speakers worked so HARD, for so LONG, to maximize bandwidth, flatness of frequency response, and dynamic range, while minimizing distortion and noise? Why is there even an Audio Engineering Society? Why aren't we all still listening to Edison phonographs?
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