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In Reply to: RE: Not really. posted by Analog Scott on September 4, 2019 at 10:05:22:
You seem to be hung up on the notion that there is only ONE single absolute sound. But as I noted in my OP, there are MANY absolute sounds, and, with experience, we will recognize what kinds of sounds they are to a sufficient degree to determine whether or not a given recording (not one synthesized in the studio) is accurate.
You're also hung up on the concept of absolute accuracy - that does not exist either, but, in most instances, all we need is a sense of the relative accuracy of a given recording (compared to others). The sense of accuracy can include a sense of whether the recording was minimally microphoned, or whether it was multi-miked, whether the microphones were colored or not - in fact, all sorts of parameters. Within each category, recordings can be more or less accurate, and we can have a sense of that- accuracy is not a single, unyielding standard - and it's exactly for the reasons you note in your last paragraph. But each scenario you list can have a more or a less accurate presentation of what the sound was really like when it was recorded.
Basically, you are arguing for chaos! You're arguing in favor of engineers or producers modifying the sound to their own liking, and then we play back the results on our own systems, where we don't care about accuracy and we've tweaked our systems to our own separate pleasures (which, likely, do not correspond to the predispositions of other listeners). How can we even discuss the sound quality of a given recording amidst such chaos? It's already bad enough when we try to optimize our systems for what we believe is accuracy. The "please yourself" approach you espouse just makes things worse.
And yet, I do NOT in any way want to forbid folks from setting up their systems in such a way that the systems are in compliance with their own preferences. If you've set up your system that way, then more power to you. I just want people to be aware of what they're doing.
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Follow Ups
- You're misrepresenting what I said - Chris from Lafayette 09/4/1919:57:13 09/4/19 (4)
- RE: You're misrepresenting what I said part 2 - Analog Scott 11:20:02 09/5/19 (0)
- How? I didn't represent what *you* said in my post - Analog Scott 11:12:29 09/5/19 (2)
- Now you're misrepresenting what YOU said! - Chris from Lafayette 20:25:15 09/7/19 (1)
- I hate to play this card but you are misunderstanding what I said - Analog Scott 13:50:54 09/8/19 (0)
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