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From Perotin to Prokofiev (and beyond), performed by Caruso to Khatia, it's all here.

It's absolutely valid to ask a presumed audiophile couch commando whether he expects, say, a triple-forte

string pluck AND it's audible reflection off the local stage walls to be retained by the recording. I do. It's the kind of cue that tricks the brain into believing one is experiencing the live event. If one is not familiar with such live experiences, than one wont miss such cues at home. How I'd love to be blissfully-ignorant! I could go back to AM radio.

In my experience there are far more of the above types of audio spacial cues retained by the Beecham recording than the Reiner; that's why it sounds more "natural" to me. Can these retained cues be objectively-measured and tallied? Sure, why not? Let's have a shoot-out, your place. : )

If one wants to claim that recordings are either 0% "natural" or 100% "natural," then maybe we should be discussing the straw man fallacy instead? ; ) I never claimed that the Beecham was perfect, neither did I claim that the Reiner was anything less than above average.

Now, if we were talking foreign policy and I claimed to know better because I peeled potatoes on a Navy ship way back when, then I'd buy your Argumentum ad vercundiam bit. : )




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