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In Reply to: Why do you assume AUDIO TRUTH and MUSICALITY are different???? posted by Troop on September 21, 2001 at 04:11:08:
... so I got curious whether people prefer to hear these blemished recordings as they exactly are (hence a vote for audio truth), or would rather hear them more "palatable" whichever the cost (be it euphonics, etc... hence a vote for musicality as #1 priority).Why I asked this? Because I'm wondering whether to most people the point of this audio hobby is still to get as much enjoyment as possible from their music. Admit it or not, the more your system approaches audio truth (which IMHO no system ever achieves 100%) the more flaws it reveals, and more discs get unlistenable.
I know that audio truth is totally capable of ultimate experience with near-perfect recordings. But I don't know whether you people prefer to limit yourselves to audio nirvana with good recordings, or would rather get reasonably involving sound from ALL your favorite music, including badly recorded ones.
I guess most audiophiles will agree that when a recording is annoyingly bad, listening to it gets much less involving, regardless of whether the music is well-executed. And personally, 80% of my discs belong to this category!
IMHO, listener involvement and enjoyment is possible not only by recreating the sound in a very accurate way, but also by reproducing this sound in a different way that sometimes can even sound better than what's actually in the recording... just like watching a pianist playing a second performance of the same piece in exactly the same execution style, but this time using a better-sounding piano.
So do you care about what the performance sounded like during the recording session (vote: audio truth), or about how good the performance can sound in your listening room (vote: musicality)? Of course if recordings were perfect, these two would be the same thing... and I wouldn't ask this question which to some appears silly.
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Follow Ups
- Simply because many recordings are far from perfect... - Arnel 08:24:39 09/21/01 (1)
- Re: Simply because many recordings are far from perfect... - Paul 05:49:51 09/25/01 (0)
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