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

Roderick Stewart wrote:
In article <vMAsg.33507$OT.11298@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Evans wrote:

Well we could go around in circles for hours arguing this point, but at the end of the day the point is about sound quality. Whether we are talking about reproducing a sound recorded by a microphone, or an electronic signal generated by a synthesizer. Poor reproduction makes the sound different from the way the composer or artist intended, and also tends to add additional unpleasant aspects to the sound.


You cannot *REproduce* something which has not yet been *produced*. It is semantic nonsense to talk of a loudspeaker *REproducing"* a sound if it has never existed as a sound until after that loudspeaker makes it into one. It is not possible to repeat something that has not yet been done.

The point is indeed about quality, but it is difficult to discuss it if we don't all agree on what the word means.

Well I think the difference is that to you consider that the original has to mean an original sound recorded by a microphone. While I believe that original can refer to an original signal that created the sound.

To me it seems perfectly valid to consider 'original' as the original signal that created the sound. If the studio has a good sound system (as it almost defiantly will), then applying the same signal to a good hifi system will produce something very close to the sound produced on the studio sound system. I can see your point that technically this is not a reproduction of a sound that existed before the recording was made, but to me as long as my hifi produces the same results as the studio speaker system, that technicality has no real relevance.

Richard E.
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