Re: Am I getting paranoid or is the begining of the end?

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:26:38 +0100, Roderick Stewart
<rjfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At the risk of repeating a conversation I think we've already had, why
do you think it is nonsense? Classical music generally tends to be
created from natural sounds, i.e. voices and acoustic instruments, which
the listener could be expected to have heard in real life, and therefore
recognise when they don't sound realistic. Of course some pop music does
this too, but most of what I've heard in recent years seems to be either
electronically generated or so highly processed as part of its
production that it doesn't resemble any real acoustic environment I've
ever heard, so I assume it isn't meant to sound real.
...

This seems common sense to me.

To try to assess the reproduced quality of a source which has been
produced electronically is just not possible because the original
source hasn't existed in a form that can be heard. The closest you can
get is to compare the reproduced quality with what is heard from the
monitor loudspeakers in the recording suite. For most people that's
not possible.

Play a 1kHz square wave through two systems. One to another they'll
sound different but deciding which one is the more realistic is quite
difficult because nobody has actually heard a 1kHz square wave so
there is no reference for the comparison.

Do the same with an acoustic instrument and it's much easier because
an audible reference exists.

I could go on to say that this demonstrates that the quality of
equipment for the reproduction of electronic music (which could be a
1kHz square wave) need not be as high as that for the reproduction of
acoustic music, but I won't ;-)

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