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Re: Guess our perceptions are different

"Not sure I follow; how could you know if it was a great performance if it only sounds like a 'decent recording' of a 'mediocre performance'?"

A good question.....

The sonic degradation of poor digital playback, in my opinion, affects how one perceives the performance, to where it seems a lot worse than it actually was. Where with poor analog playback, it is much easier listen through the bad playback to the great performance.

Or to say this yet another way, if I only heard the 1970 Szell Tokyo Sibelius 2nd Symphony via digitized playback, I would have thought it was a vastly-overrated performance. For the performance seems "dull" and "boring" via digitized playback. But this same performance, which I recorded from FM broadcast to a VHS tape, it's as hair-raising and emotionally exhausting a work as any recorded performance I've ever heard.

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