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In Reply to: Which do you prefer, Truth or Beauty. posted by HiFi Guy on February 24, 2006 at 10:42:45:
Neither in my opinion. Music reproduction is an abstraction starting with the mike used to record the sound. If live is the reference, reproducing that event via Audio is impossible, but a nice postcard of the event.From the first Edison tests, people have said that what they heard was "real". From Edison onward the industry assured us that reproduction equalled reality, the goal was reachable - and at hand. Nothing has changed about this search for the best illusion.
Since fidelity is impossible, if you don't have a feeling for beauty then the search for accuracy can easily lead to sterile, detailed, one-dimensional system; like a big colorless sheet of sound. On the other hand the only reason I became interested in Audio was because I eventually realized how much detail/nuance I was missing in the recordings I loved, and that detail hit me emotionally.
In some ways my pre-audio systems were more "accurate". Sounds can get obscured in live performance, you can't hear everything. So the heighten (detailed) reproduction is not necessarily more accurate - even if you believe accuracy to live is possible. Like fingers on the fretboard.
All the rest is part of a subjective abstraction.
Gregg
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