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Posted by Story (A ) on January 23, 2021 at 04:43:07

In Reply to: RE: What about tube/solid state convergence? posted by hahax@verizon.net on January 21, 2021 at 20:49:19:

....a lot of this stuff has been talked about by well meaning people here since the inception of AA, and all of this assumes perfect speakers.

You can get virtual to instruments in the room, and space, and hall size etc. Over years here we've all seen raves and reports of that. But it's NEVER real. It's just a very nice repro with spooky attributes.

Sit right in front of a well played clarinet, sax, violin, percussion etc. Go ahead and try it sometime. Not many people here have done this. Hear in person the mechanical nature with saxophone keys being pressed. Yes, I know it can come thru on a recording but it's doesn't have a separate space from the air column or the mouthpiece and breath also. Sorry. 6 feet away from a good Sax player can be LOUD and repro'd 'loud' is not real either.

It's very close to real but it's still not the same. Real is real, repro is - "almost a particular thing or quality" or "Virtual is most generally used to describe something as being the same" (Cambridge&dic.com)

just try to enjoy what you have and stop thinking THD, IM, freq. etc. Just let the music take you away and do what it's suppose to. I'm just passing on what I've experienced over many years.

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