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RE: Clark, accepting that you are merely the messenger here,

One justifies it by saying that as a musician, I play my Martin D-28 guitar daily. Almost everyday of the year. I KNOW the sound of this instrument intimately, both "live" as well as off the 128 track digital master. Every guitar sounds different than every other guitar; even the same make/model, much like a piece of audio equipment. I am forced to listen to my playing and the sound this instrument makes very critically, as if I make a single mistake on a recording or if mic placement is off I have to begin again. Decades of doing this have trained my ears remarkably well and quite differently from my audiophile friends. I can very easily pick out when a vocalist uses a different mic in a recording than he/she has on prior recordings (like Alison Krause on the "Raising Sand" recording or most every song on Joni Mitchell's "Blue" album for examples) or when a group uses a different engineer from song to song( like Acoustic Alchemy's "This Way") I'm pretty sure the musician would be more conditioned to evaluate comparisons to live instruments, especially one he/she plays daily because they are USED to live sound whereas an audiophile is used to recorded sound with various things added or subtracted during the mix-down and mastering stages. Hope this helps.
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