Opaquiece, I would go for #1. I would like for my system to simulate the experience I would have in the concert hall if the engineer was savy enough to record it this way. Of course it will be a "miniature concert hall" since my room is not the size of a recital hall :-) I want to hear the general imaging I hear with orchestra, chamber group or string quartet.
I would NOT want to hear a string quartet as it would sound live in my room because it would be to loud and I would be too close to hear the "totality" of the quartet. (a problem that exists when rehearsing chamber music in too small a room , BTW) Rather I want to ear a receation of how that quartet sounded in the hal transported to my room. As good as my system may be, the live guitarist sounds more real than his CD. The CD ave less air and be more pinpoint in the imagine. Although the guitarist live is centered betwen the speakers , that centerednes is more difuse, less focused than the CD...............and I mean this in a god way. I am blessed with having a fair # of students who are already playing at a pro level especially my Doctoral and Master's students. We have a weekly recital in our recital hall and sometimes do camber music with the performers spread out across the stae. Sitting in the middle in the "ideal" stero position I have yet to hear the pinpoint imaging that some stereos do. Yes, the instruments are in their ownn spaces, but those spaces are "spacious" rather than contained. The live guitarist between my speakers is also more "spacious" than the CD. The live sound is less localized, has more air and has an effortless quality that I have never heard in any system. And I have heard 150.000 # systems at my dealer friends house. My system is no slouch either. This has convinced me to look for the most convincing simulacram of the live event rather than a recreation of it. In the end,however, I choose a system the way I choose a guitar. I do analyze, compare etc.(all those tedious things). But in the end, I buy the guitar that turns me on the most, the one that intensifies my emotional response to the music I am playing. That's the best way for me to choose my system as well. BTW I have a 60's era macintosh tube amp that gets something about the dynamics that is very exciting and seems more lifelike(in terms of dynamics) than most modern gear I hear. I only listen to it ocassionally but it is a lot of fun. I am sure it measures badly but it does some very enjoyable things. Back to live guitar, at the same spl levels the CD "sounds" louder than the live guitarist. I was shocked that the spl's were the same. -- tomjtx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomjtx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7449 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32374 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
