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RE: However..

This is Floyd Toole's Circle of Confusion which can only be resolved if the producers adopt comparably accurate equipment. OTOH, if the home playback is honest, you get what the producers wanted anyway.


You don't know that. Unless you've heard the record in the mastering engineer's room, you're just guessing about how they intended it to sound. Even if you did, you might not be hearing how they intended it to sound on a home playback system. For example, some engineers like artificially bright speakers that emphasize details because it makes their job easier, but they're not aiming for the same sound at home. They're making guesses about how it will sound in various playback systems. Likewise, we're making guesses about how they wanted it to sound.

That is not the concern of those of us interested in high quality reproduction because we will always be a niche. The rest don't really care.


Sure it's a concern, because most records aren't produced for audiophiles. For example, if the engineers are trying to make things sound better on earbuds and car radios in a noisy environment, they will use a lot of compression.



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