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Re: What Constitutes Accurate Musical Replication?

>>Many would describe accurate reproduction as being the amplifier who's signal output most closely replicates a microphones signal output of the music being recorded. Many others would describe accurate reproduction as being the amplifier who's output most closely replicates a musical instrument's acoustic output of the music being recorded.

Why does this great divide exist between these two differing beliefs?<<

Because both sides are confused by the huge and substantial difference between "reproduction" and the"illusion of reproduction froma single fixed perspective." Note that you are discussing the amplifier's output and whether it "closely replicates a musical instrument's output" That is just the thing. The "output" of the musical instruments is not being replicated at any point in the chain of recording or playback. It is being picked up at certain fixed points by transducers with certain characterisitics as chosen by a recording engineer. The idea that the signal generated from the mics is in anyway going to translate into any sort of *reproduction* of *The original acoustic event* is laughable. It's like taking a snap shot of a landscape and thinging the print is going to be an actual place.

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