Thanks for getting my point.
Recording as Artifact
The more I listen to classical music the more I feel as though the sound of the recording influences my opinion of a performance as much as the interpretation. The recording is an artifact of its own and necessarily should be judged as a total entity. Of course there are exceptions, such as horrid performances in great sound and visa versa. A legendary performance doesn’t have to have great sound to be appreciated. But other than that, generally I appreciate a recording as a combination of interpretation and sonics.
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@rvpiano - The point was clear from the very opening post - the counter argument is that interpretation and understanding is limited without accuracy of reproduction in the time domain; mine was a spanner attempt to open up the echo chamber this issue in audio has become, my very bad. I leave this thread to it - the enjoyment of preferred artifacts.
In friendship - kevin |
OP, "...Could it be since you’re not going for the ultimate in detail you don’t have to spend quite as much on components?" Unfortunately, I would say no. Getting gobs of detail is pretty easy. Getting gobs of detail, with the right tonal balance is harder... but getting the gestalt, midrange bloom and sound staging is really hard. It isn't that the details are missing, but they are in the soundstage in proportion without being presented with a bump in treble. |
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