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RE: Agreed

Realism isn't the be all and end all of listening to music. It's just one of the things that counts. A perfectly realistic reproduction of a live concert that was a bad performance and/or bad music (as judged by the listener) would not be enjoyable. However, in the context of bass boost due to loudness compensation I've yet to find a tradeoff where loudness compensation worked, except in the case of a playback system that lacks low bass or recordings that were poorly equalized (e.g. because the mastering studio playback had too much bass or was monitored at excessive volume).

I have quite a few realistic recordings of various types of music, solo guitar, solo piano, jazz trios, string quartets, Mozart symphonies, choral music, organ music, even Mahler symphonies. These are invariably recorded with two (or at most a few) microphones with no dynamic compression or level riding throughout.

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Tony Lauck

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



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