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In Reply to: OK, jdaniel - you'll have to explain this posted by Chris from Lafayette on August 31, 2020 at 22:49:17:
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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Follow Ups
- It's absolutely valid to ask a presumed audiophile couch commando whether he expects, say, a triple-forte - jdaniel@jps.net 09/1/2009:27:46 09/1/20 (21)
- Nice side-step there, jdaniel - Chris from Lafayette 13:01:40 09/1/20 (20)
- What does one do when performing or sitting in on live rehearsals? - jdaniel@jps.net 13:15:50 09/1/20 (19)
- So you're claiming that the only way one will pay attention. . . - Chris from Lafayette 16:40:06 09/1/20 (18)
- Just a point of clarification... - Analog Scott 20:18:30 09/1/20 (13)
- So you're saying it's odd to expect a recording to preserve a hall's reflection of, say, a rim-shot? - jdaniel@jps.net 07:31:46 09/2/20 (7)
- Do you actually read my posts or do you just drop in random responses? - Analog Scott 08:17:11 09/2/20 (6)
- I read all the way through your tortured soliloquy, down to the final, indignant paragraphs, obviously. - jdaniel@jps.net 08:33:50 09/2/20 (5)
- Based on your question it was pretty far from obvious - Analog Scott 09:25:07 09/2/20 (4)
- Aural Illusions... I get it. But does it matter how the brain is tricked? - jdaniel@jps.net 09:47:37 09/2/20 (3)
- What "matters" is subjective - Analog Scott 10:11:23 09/2/20 (2)
- Ultimately, you're saying that "downstream" empirical measurements of any sort are off the table? T - jdaniel@jps.net 10:26:12 09/2/20 (1)
- Nope, not what I am saying either - Analog Scott 12:33:42 09/2/20 (0)
- Yeah - we've had this discussion before [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 01:10:53 09/2/20 (4)
- Do you believe it's "fact" that 5 Channel is more open and natural, dare I say "closer to the live experience" - jdaniel@jps.net 07:45:46 09/2/20 (3)
- For me it is, but for many listeners, it's obviously not - Chris from Lafayette 12:46:40 09/2/20 (2)
- OK then, the superiority of Chabrier in three channel is a matter of opinion. : ) nt - jdaniel@jps.net 12:58:08 09/2/20 (1)
- Indeed! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 15:42:45 09/2/20 (0)
- Did I say that? It is but one way, and, for the umteenth time, I also mentioned sitting-in on rehearsals, and - jdaniel@jps.net 17:31:04 09/1/20 (3)
- So. . . I just don't know what your point is. . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:47:09 09/1/20 (2)
- You win. Hurwitz prefers the Reiner, BUT, in another vid, he comes dangerously close - jdaniel@jps.net 18:02:21 09/1/20 (1)
- Indeed, just as you don't actively DISlike the Reiner recording. . . - Chris from Lafayette 01:21:12 09/2/20 (0)