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Re: I didn't know I had a ghostwriter!


Faithfulness to the recording, i.e. to what's on my CD or LP, is the only I can achieve.

Mmmm. What of faithfulness to what sounds best to you and your personal enjoyment of reproduced music?


If, however, that CD or LP happens to be faithful to what was heard in the studio or during the live event, then my playback is also faithful to the original event.

It seems to me that that could only be the case if you were using the same playback equipment as was used in the studio to produce that particular recording. Either that or if the playback used in the studio were "perfect" and your playback equipment is equally "perfect." And that doesn't even bring the acoustics of the studio into the picture.

The recordings that have been made over the years have been made using a huge variety of playback equipment with huge sonic differences between them. The recording engineers have had to work with what they had at the time and in order to achieve the result they are looking for, they will resort to various things to try and help compensate for any deficiencies of the playback equipment.

Which means that what's actually on the recording is rather like an inverse transfer function of the deficiencies of the playback equipment used for that particular recording.

To play back that recording on a "perfect" system would be faithful neither to the original live event nor what was heard in the studio.

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