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Re: What Constitutes Accurate Musical Replication?

> 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.

No. The brain is very good at filling in missing information so long as the cues are correct.

Proper multichannel recordings played back over loudspeakers are a substantial step towards "being there" type accuracy compared to stereo recordings. Accurate binaural recordings are an even bigger step. Both these involve straightforward established knowledge and fairly cheap hardware compared with the typical prices of audiophile hardware.

The only problem seems to be that nobody appears to believe that there is a market for high sound quality outside a small number of professional and research areas. The audiophile market has never demonstrated any interest in accurate sound reproduction in a real rather than marketed sense. The most clear example of this is probably what companies opted to do with new media like SACD and DVD-Audio.

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