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In Reply to: I agree with JohnL below.... posted by Julien43 on November 9, 2003 at 11:44:39:
< < "I have never read a review that states the system they are reviewing sounds exactly like a live preformance. Maybe someday the means will be discovered." > >You are SO right & I think this is the root of a lot of the dissatisfaction that audiophiles have or develop at some point with their systems. The experience and thrill of a live performance depends on a number of factors, not just the sound -- these involve a number of sensory modalities that interact together to convey the ambience of the real thing. Historically high fidelity was never developed with the intent of perfectly re-creating an event, but rather to provide the closest facsimile of such a performance. In fact, modern systems do quite well in this regard. I personally don't care whether my system is producing a "live event" as long as it sounds good and conveys a reasonable amount of the information needed for me to experience this enjoyment. I doubt, frankly, that sound reproduction technology as we know it today will ever be able to recreate a live performance -- to do this would most likely require development of a technology that completely by-passes the loudspeaker-air-ear conduction modality and instead uses a direct auditory nerve or brain stimulation technology. This is theoretically possible now but not likely to be a practical reality for another 20-30 years or so.
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