Mitch Harding;176934 Wrote: > For me, I would like to hear the music as the musicians and/or engineer > intended it to be heard. Not necessarily a "live music" sound. I > guess I > want to feel like my equipment is doing as little as possible to > adulterate > the original intent. >
I agree that the goal should be to hear the music as intended by the producer of the recording. Even most "live" recordings (that is, recordings of live events) are processed/EQ'd/mastered in a way that is not a true reproduction of the live event. A few months ago, I happened to be in Chicago and went to a pretty well-known blues venue called Kingston Mines. Awesome bands (two of them), great atmosphere...and *horrible* sound! "Fatiguing" doesn't even begin to describe it..."ice-pick-in-ear-drum" is a better description. And for the most part, most live music venues that feature amplified music sound pretty bad. But there aren't many live blues recordings from venues such as these that are completely ear-splitting, so obviously the recording folks have tailored the recording to be easier to listen to. Even on non-amplified venues, I find there is very little in terms of "pinpoint imaging". And unless you're sitting 2 feet from the performer, you're not getting much of the detail and tonal richness of a closely-mic'd vocal or string instrument. But hearing those kinds of recordings in a good system is very enjoyable to me, even if they don't really reflect what a "live" performance actually sounds like. A lot of what we listen to on a stereo recording is meant to synthesize a live experience...even tho there is no pinpoint imaging in a real venue, having imaging that helps you place musicians in a soundstage provides an illusion of space (regardless of the fact that in the live event, likely all the sound was coming out in mono from 2-3 PA monitors). And then of course, there is the studio-produced stuff that has no meaning in terms of translating into a live event (think Dark Side of the Moon)... -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32374 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
