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

In article <%ZDsg.81374$lQ.27726@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Evans wrote:
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.

Yes it's perfectly valid to regard an electrical signal as an original work.
The original doesn't have to be a sound. However, it only seems meaningful to
me to talk of "accuracy" or "fidelity" in the playback of such a signal in
those cases where the original *was* an actual acoustic sound. In other cases,
some other sort of criterion has to be applied.

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.

Yes, it will probably sound close, and if that pleases you then that's good,
but see my other posting about what costitutes a "good" sound system. As long
as some natural acoustic music making still exists, then we have a point of
reference because we can make sound systems that produce a very close likeness
of those sounds, which we can judge by ear, and thereby define those sound
systems as good. However, if one day (heaven forbid) all acoustic music making
should go out of fashion so that all music originates as electrical signals,
then that point of reference will have disappeared and we will only be left
with laboratory measurements of the equipment, and there will be nothing we can
compare with our ears except the sound of one loudspeaker against another.

Rod.

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