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RE: Coloration is one form of distortion....................

No, we call that room acoustics. It's a natural phenomenon with all music, so we expect it and we like it. Some performance rooms might sound better and more pleasing than others, however. The pure undistorted sound of the piano in an anecoic chamber or outdoors would be poor and it would not carry very well. Room reflections are nature's own amplifiers, but they do involve colorations. That's how we like our music.

It would be foolish to record anechoically, then have your room or your system try to put those natural colorations back into the sound in a fixed, unvarying way. You could only mimic one room, not the actual natural differences between concert venues. It would also be difficult to do and retain fidelity. In ensemble playing, the performers would not be able to hear one another, so they would be out of synch.

It would be just as foolish to have your system put additional layers of coloration on top of the natual acoustic sound we hear in real life, colored though it might be. It's the job of a sound system to reproduce what you would actually hear if you were there yourself. None is perfect, but the fewer the colorations in the reproduction chain, the better.

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