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Ever walk down the street and pass a building and hear a piano playing through a partially open window around the corner and be able to tell it's a real piano being played inside, not a typical stereo system? Frequency response is surely shot to hell, yet you know it's the real thing because the tone and coherence is preserved. A lot of people cite the Quad ESL-57 as an example of a speaker you can pick a square wave out of, which could be given as a reason why its sound reproduction is considered to be superb and nonfatiguing. No, it doesn't do dynamics like a big horn system, nor does it do deep bass or play really loud. You don't want a recording of unamplified classical or folk music to sound like it's coming out of a rock concert sound system, so why try to mimic such a system to faithfully reproduce the music? If it's live blues I expect the sound to be loud and full of energy, but I want to hear what's picked up by the microphones (and mixed, if they choose to do so), not by what comes out of a PA system.

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