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In Reply to: RE: Orchestral-sized events are the worst "live reference" posted by KlausR. on October 24, 2010 at 06:01:36:
"I think it was Earl Geddes who said that when the performance venue has about the same size and acoustic characteristics as the playback room then there might be a chance that reproduced music sounds like live."
Exactly. It works great with one or two instruments in a large living room with full range speakers that have very flat on axis and power response The fine tuning required adjusts balances the remaining errors to a certain extent, e.g. by making minute changes in microphone position and aiming one can balance things off to the necessary tolerance.
If one moves about in the listening room one gets a different response from the live instrument. Once the differences between live and recording are down below this threshold then there won't be significant differences between live and recorded. Indeed, that may have been part of the "trick" when I did my piano experiments, since the reproduced piano was about 8 feet to the right of the real piano and along a wall, not in the corner. So of course it sounded slightly different, but so would the actual instrument if it had been moved. One needs to reach a threshold where the willing suspension of belief can take place. If one is overly obsessive one will never reach this point. However, if one has this kind of personality it is likely that one finds most activities frustrating and unsatisfactory and the solution for such a miserable life is not to be found in equipment, technology or other material possessions.
It goes without saying that the designers of the microphones and speakers (and other equipment) used science and measurement in their development and manufacturing process. However, science and engineering can only go so far and that is the point where the art of recording and reproducing music begins.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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