opaqueice;322843 Wrote: > Certainly two different trumpets played by two different trumpeters in > two different rooms can sound very different. But they still sound > like -trumpets-, not like speaker cones in sealed boxes. > > > Really? In any halfway decent recording I can easily identify a > trumpet as a trumpet. > > It doesn't follow from the fact that instruments can produce a wide > range of different sounds that there is no such thing as accuracy in > reproduction. The distortions by audio recording/playback have a very > different character from the differences in sound produced by playing > two different trumpets in two different rooms.
Ohh! Opaqueice, How much I missed your dry scientific input in this thread! how were your vacations? Scientist and whales are mammals, 5.6 litter twin turbo v10 and a 1.6l turbo diesel are car engines, and you know I can go forever with this analogies. The point is that the biggest virtue of a musical instrument is its capacity to present a tone in direct response to the performers input, which is of course subject to every thing that affects him directly. Constantly shifting accuracies are not by definition something you can call a reference, therefore the word accuracy in sound reproduction looses a lot of relevance. So yes a trumpet is a trumpet but the infinite variations of the sounds of the trumpet renders the use of the word "trumpet" (as reference) incredibly ambiguous to even talk about it on terms of accuracy or any terms that are not related to the object per se. -- GuyDebord Kharma Ceramique 3.2FE's wired with v/d Hul Inspiration, REL Strata5. AMPS: Pathos Classic One MKIII's in mono config. ANALOGUE: Clearaudio Ambient CMB, Satisfy Carbon & Lyra Helikon SL, ASR Basis Exclusive phono preamp, link: AcousticZen Silver Reference2 XLRs. DIGITAL: SlimDevices Transporter, link: WireWorld SilverEclipse 5.2. AC: Isotek MiniSub GII, Isotek Elite cables (MiniSub, Rel), ASR Magic Cord (ASR), Siltech SPX30 MKII's (Pathos) & v/d Hul Mainserver (Transporter). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GuyDebord's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14587 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49757
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