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When you say live music, I assume you mean true, unamplified live music, such as a symphony playing in an acoustically perfect concert hall? That's true that we
by rms 18y ago
When you say live music, I assume you mean true, unamplified live music, such as a symphony playing in an acoustically perfect concert hall? That's true that we're not quite there (there will be no <20 hertz standing waves in my living room), but for those of us that listen to music designed to be amplified, such as rock music, a high end audio system regularly beats poorly mixed rock concerts.
Where does your 20% measure come from? I would think speakers with appropriately high end source (reel to reel tape?) versus a symphony, both in a concert hall, would be indistinguishable in a double blind test more than 20% of the time to the above-average audiophile. Has this ever been done?
- derefr 18y agoAnd what of electronic music, that has never touched an analogue input other than through purified samples? It's probably mixed to sound best on the monitors the sound editor was wearing, so what speakers best replicate that experience (besides the monitors themselves?)