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RE: Wouldn't stop anything. Matter of fact people can do what you suggest but don't.

Accuracy requires a reference and a metric that measures differences. The problem is doubly difficult, because unless one was present at the original recording one must guess at the reference and because no reproduction can generate identical acoustic waveforms in the recording venue and the listening room. Accordingly, what matters is subjective perception of sonic accuracy and this works differently with different listeners because of artifacts in their hearing and training in their mind.

At least with classical music, jazz and most other acoustic music, my experience has been that most recordings are enjoyable once a system has been properly selected and voiced to fit a listening room. The music sounds similar to what one hears "live" which is also "good sounding". This might not be the case with other musical genres. I do have a few recordings that sound quite horrible, but it seems likely that this was intentional on the part of the producer and performers.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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