I'm not so sure I agree. It's happened a few times that I was at a concert and obtained an audience recording of the concert weeks after the fact. I distincly remember thinking to myself "wow, this recording very faithfully captured the sound of the performance - flaws and all".
With pictures and video, framing in addition to visual quality come into a play. Take a crappy picture, crop it to frame it more properly, and you have a totally different picture. I've experienced this myself many times. Another thought - evaluating an audio recording in this manner is complicated by the fact that both the playback and recording setups are in play. With amateur and stealth audio recording, equipment and equipment placement have a huge bearing on the sound. A crappy recording played back on the best sounding multi-million dollar audiophile's wet dream system will still sound like crap - just very faithfully reproduced crap :-). Yet another thought - how you feel about this depends on what "type" of person/learner you are. I am both visual and auditory, leaning toward the auditory side. Taking this into account, my thoughts on this aren't surprising. Take somebody that is very visual in their learning/thinking (as perhaps you might be) and they have a completely different opinion. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 Duet, 1 Receiver, 1 Touch, iPeng on iPod Touch. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeBoxServer 7.5.0, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 33,696 songs, 2,720 albums, 499 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86577 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
