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In Reply to: I read all the way through your tortured soliloquy, down to the final, indignant paragraphs, obviously. posted by jdaniel@jps.net on September 2, 2020 at 08:33:50:
"I'll ask you again: is it Audiophilia "bullshit" and delusion to expect a recording to retain something as commonplace as few hall reflections?"
And I will answer again. It's a question that seems to exhibit a typical audiophile ignorance about how audio recording and playback actually works. *Recordings* record (not retain) the electrical signals that are fed to the recorder from the recording or mixing console. Those electrical signals are not acoustic wave forms. Recordings do not "retain" any acoustic waveforms (that includes room reflections if I wasn't being clear enough). They record electrical signals derived from microphonefeeds that when fed back into an audio playback system will produce an entirely new acoustic wave form in an entirely new acoustic space. And through a basic understanding of human aural perception audio engineers starting with Blumlein figured out a rudimentary way to set up microphones in an acoustic space that when recorded and played back through a propperly set up two channel loud speaker system will create some semblence of an aural illusion that reminds us of the spacial perception of a live experience. That aural illusion can include some sort of aural cues that remind us of what we percieve in regards to concert hall reflections. the playback is not accurate to the original wave form. Not even close. The effect is an aural illusion much like 3D TV. And the effect is at best reminicent of the perception one would have had at the original event. It is never an aural or perceptual match. The degree to which it comes close is highly subjective in nature.
I apologize for the long winded answer but your question as it stands is as absurd as asking what would happen if an irrestable force acted upon an immovable object? or what is north of the north pole? Questions that are loaded with false presumptions about the very nature of reality have to be carefully dissected to be propperly answered.
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Follow Ups
- Based on your question it was pretty far from obvious - Analog Scott 09/2/2009:25:07 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)
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