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You're really missing the point

Posted by E-Stat on June 2, 2025 at 16:54:00:
...as all recordings have amplification involved in the process.

Any other pearls of *obvious* wisdom you have to offer?

The goal is to minimize the amount of artificiality found in recordings which varies widely. We really don't need 64 channel mixing consoles for a natural sounding result. We don't need to run the signal through hundreds of crappy op amps as the audible damage is cumulative. I grew up enjoying pop and rock music but the *live* experience is an utter sonic joke. Aside from the ear bleeding wall of hard sounding mud, the lack of *any* manner of perspective should be OBVIOUS to anyone. It's like taking dozens of pictures inches away from instruments and vocalists (who does that?) and looking through all of them simultaneously. Works if you like the stage antics, choreography and pyrotechnics instead.

Sheer artifice.

There *is* a natural reference with many venues of acoustical music where perspective is actually apparent. Depth. Location of instruments in space. Ever look through a stereoscopic View Master? Some systems can render that dimensionality quite well using recording techniques pioneered in the 1950s. Others are flat as a pancake.

Striving for perfection is not a vain pursuit unless you're a defeatist. Is that you?