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..even if you had pair of loudspeakers that sounded exactly like the live sound in the next room and thus be perfect then unfortunately that may not give you anything like perfect sound at home. That is because virtually all commercial records are tweaked to sound their best on what the producer and mastering engineer anticipate an average range of domestic speakers will sound like. Further they can only judge this via their own, imperfect, pairs of speakers.

They have been doing this for decades and this, in turn, has led consumers to expect records to sound in a certain way which may well not have much to do with live sound. Especially if the consumers have never experienced true live sound but only that heard via electronics and loudspeakers ( i.e. nowadays the majority).


Keep in mind that live sound levels are significantly higher than what most people listen at. If you master recordings to sound correct at concert levels, most everybody is going to complain about the lack of bass and treble and generally anemic sound at normal playback levels.



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