In Reply to: Agreed posted by G Squared on November 12, 2015 at 17:04:27:
"It allows the listening experience to be as immersive at low and moderate levels as it is at performance level. I have not noticed any negative effect on the listening experience."
The negative effect is a loss of musical realism. What one hears is not equivalent to a live experience. This may not be a problem, because of the listener or his recordings:
1. Recordings made with any amount of dynamic compression can never be realistic.
2. Recordings made with many microphones can never be realistic.
3. Recordings made of non-acoustic instruments can never be realistic, because there is no standard of what constitutes realism. However, recordings with many instruments unamplified and a few amplified, e.g. jazz vocals, may still provide opportunities for realism.
4. Systems or domestic situations incompatible with playback at concert volume can not produce (continued) enjoyment of realistic reproduction.
5. Listeners without extensive experience with attending live musical performances of the genres involved have no basis for judging realism and hence the concept is effectively inoperative.
6. Listeners using music as background music and not dedicating their attention to enjoying the musical performance will tend not to notice an absence of realism, unless reproduction is gross.
Tony Lauck
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Follow Ups
- RE: Agreed - Tony Lauck 11/12/1517:36:47 11/12/15 (22)
- The negative effect is a loss of musical realism. What one hears is not equivalent to a live experience. - Jaundiced Ear 22:13:38 11/15/15 (3)
- RE: The negative effect is a loss of musical realism. What one hears is not equivalent to a live experience. - Tony Lauck 08:40:55 11/16/15 (2)
- RE: The negative effect is a loss of musical realism. What one hears is not equivalent to a live experience. - Jaundiced Ear 22:03:39 11/16/15 (1)
- RE: The negative effect is a loss of musical realism. What one hears is not equivalent to a live experience. - Tony Lauck 08:07:22 11/17/15 (0)
- Another take - Bill Way 21:28:19 11/13/15 (3)
- RE: Another take - Dave_K 12:46:09 11/14/15 (0)
- RE: Another take - Tony Lauck 08:57:26 11/14/15 (0)
- Nicely thought out commentary - E-Stat 08:05:51 11/14/15 (0)
- RE: "What one hears is not equivalent to a live experience." - Ivan303 18:43:26 11/13/15 (0)
- RE: Agreed - AbeCollins 20:38:50 11/12/15 (9)
- RE: Agreed - Tony Lauck 07:35:00 11/13/15 (5)
- RE: Agreed - Ryelands 08:33:32 11/13/15 (4)
- RE: Agreed - Fitzcaraldo215 09:10:00 11/17/15 (0)
- RE: Agreed - Tony Lauck 12:46:44 11/13/15 (2)
- RE: Agreed - Ryelands 13:43:50 11/13/15 (1)
- RE: Agreed - Tony Lauck 17:37:07 11/13/15 (0)
- RE: Agreed - DSG 06:29:56 11/13/15 (2)
- Precisely.... Someone's always complaining about how others choose to enjoy music - AbeCollins 12:11:30 11/13/15 (1)
- RE: Precisely.... Someone's always complaining about how others choose to enjoy music - Bob_C 12:29:47 11/15/15 (0)
- No shorttage of exposure to live music - G Squared 17:46:46 11/12/15 (2)
- RE: No shorttage of exposure to live music - Tony Lauck 19:30:11 11/12/15 (0)
- One more thing - G Squared 17:57:28 11/12/15 (0)