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I would not use multi-mic/tracked recordings as reference.

Hi.

You have said it, most modern recordings, particularly pop bands,
are virtually a hugh monoral production after all those multi-mic/tracking edits mixed with simulated ambience to make it sound closer to the original recording venue.

All these deliberated simulation of the real performance, to me, is a joke. Straigtly for music listening, may be fine to many (surely not to me), but surely not used as a sonic reference to judge the quality of our gears.

That's why I always say we get to take what is available
closest to the real thing. A classical performance, though still using a few mics, but at least they are recorded in a concert all or some spaceous venue with much less artificially 'seasoning' onto the music.

This is a better evil than those rock/pop bands recordings.

I have heard old classical recordings took place in concert halls in England, recorded with a pair of uni-directional mics one at each side of the orchestra, with only one figure-8 bi-direction mic at the centre off the podium to reserve the best of the hall's original acoustical textures. These were BBC productions decades back. But it is hard to find such closest-to-the-real-stuff recording practices nowadays.

As I already suggested, go to Sunday morning service in a church, & enjoy some real thing, easy & free - church choirs.

Please don't tell us we need more than 2 speakers to reproduce the original recording ambience because "2 channels allow one plane to be defined". I disagree.

If your statement was correct, the current Dolby 7.1 digital home theatre would fit the shoes with speakers all over the place. There will be no end for this multi multi speaker game.

Room acoustics surely take tolls on reproduced sound to some extent
but is not that that dramatic as to cure or kill the sound. This is at least not my personal experience.

Horns are popularly used in PA in large indoor auditorium or outdoor applications for their commonly very high efficiency & long range.

But for home music, not for me, please. Horn delivers least distortion but hugh tone horn colouration. Try to play a tenor vocal or strings music through them, & hear what you get. Not my cup of tea, my friend.

c-J




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