The concept of "degregation of fidelity" misses the elephant in the room.
Consider recording an orchestra in a concert hall. Where exactly should the microphones be placed? Conductor's podium? First row of the audience? Centre, right left? Centre of the audience? With or without a complete audience?
The concept of a single place for the microphones is, of course, too simplistic. But it does highlight the point that there cannot be a single "correct" sound - it is all a choice made by the recording engineer.
Back when I had ears and CDs were new, I and a friend did A-B comparisons between a CD and vinyl. His setup was good, but not audiophool. We could tell a difference, but we could not tell which was which nor which was better.
The concept of "degregation of fidelity" misses the elephant in the room.
Consider recording an orchestra in a concert hall. Where exactly should the microphones be placed? Conductor's podium? First row of the audience? Centre, right left? Centre of the audience? With or without a complete audience?
The concept of a single place for the microphones is, of course, too simplistic. But it does highlight the point that there cannot be a single "correct" sound - it is all a choice made by the recording engineer.
Back when I had ears and CDs were new, I and a friend did A-B comparisons between a CD and vinyl. His setup was good, but not audiophool. We could tell a difference, but we could not tell which was which nor which was better.
What about binaural recording ?
The concept of "degregation of fidelity" misses the elephant in the room.
Consider recording an orchestra in a concert hall. Where exactly should the microphones be placed? Conductor's podium? First row of the audience? Centre, right left? Centre of the audience? With or without a complete audience?
The concept of a single place for the microphones is, of course, too simplistic. But it does highlight the point that there cannot be a single "correct" sound - it is all a choice made by the recording engineer.
Back when I had ears and CDs were new, I and a friend did A-B comparisons between a CD and vinyl. His setup was good, but not audiophool. We could tell a difference, but we could not tell which was which nor which was better.
What about binaural recording ?
Question in the second paragraph: where exactly would you put the dummy head?
The concept of "degregation of fidelity" misses the elephant in the room.
Consider recording an orchestra in a concert hall. Where exactly should the microphones be placed? Conductor's podium? First row of the audience? Centre, right left? Centre of the audience? With or without a complete audience?
The concept of a single place for the microphones is, of course, too simplistic. But it does highlight the point that there cannot be a single "correct" sound - it is all a choice made by the recording engineer.
Back when I had ears and CDs were new, I and a friend did A-B comparisons between a CD and vinyl. His setup was good, but not audiophool. We could tell a difference, but we could not tell which was which nor which was better.
What about binaural recording ?
Question in the second paragraph: where exactly would you put the dummy head?
Where I would be sitting. I understand the difficulties, I was just trying to say for some situations I think the answer is simple but particularly for large environments yes I agree. I am actually amazed how good they are recording and mixing.
The concept of "degregation of fidelity" misses the elephant in the room.
Consider recording an orchestra in a concert hall. Where exactly should the microphones be placed? Conductor's podium? First row of the audience? Centre, right left? Centre of the audience? With or without a complete audience?
The concept of a single place for the microphones is, of course, too simplistic. But it does highlight the point that there cannot be a single "correct" sound - it is all a choice made by the recording engineer.
Back when I had ears and CDs were new, I and a friend did A-B comparisons between a CD and vinyl. His setup was good, but not audiophool. We could tell a difference, but we could not tell which was which nor which was better.
What about binaural recording ?
Question in the second paragraph: where exactly would you put the dummy head?
Where I would be sitting. I understand the difficulties, I was just trying to say for some situations I think the answer is simple but particularly for large environments yes I agree. I am actually amazed how good they are recording and mixing.
And where would you be sitting? Why there and why not elsewhere?
Depending on where you are sitting, you will hear the music differently. Which "different" is "right", and why are the other positions "not right"?
I think the where you are sitting is being either over thought, or strong evidence that more reproductive precision is required. One on end of the argument, any seat is fine as long as you would be happy with that seat in a live performance.
I think the where you are sitting is being either over thought, or strong evidence that more reproductive precision is required. One on end of the argument, any seat is fine as long as you would be happy with that seat in a live performance. On the other hand, if you want recordings from a bunch of different locations so you can make a seat selection for your next live performance the answer gets complicated.
While those aficionado approved seats are undoubtedly good I would be willing to bet that folks with preferences for subsections of the music, brass or woodwinds as examples, have preferences that are subsets of these, or even outside of them.
The concept of "degregation of fidelity" misses the elephant in the room.
Consider recording an orchestra in a concert hall. Where exactly should the microphones be placed? Conductor's podium? First row of the audience? Centre, right left? Centre of the audience? With or without a complete audience?
The concept of a single place for the microphones is, of course, too simplistic. But it does highlight the point that there cannot be a single "correct" sound - it is all a choice made by the recording engineer.
One thing that may distinguish "audiophools" (a common insult hurled about in this platform) from genuine music and audio lovers is if they attend actual live concerts of acoustic music, or not.
An interesting similar choice occurs in 3D rendering and stereoscopic visuals. If you choose the view frustrum to match the typical viewing distance, the rendered image acts like a window to the rendered scene. However, you can increase the field of view, which lets the human view more of the scene at once than they could in real life; and for stereoscopic images, increasing the interocular distance enhances the depth perception.
slewrate is bandwidth
The latter is often called “full-power” bandwidth on data sheets.