Re: Digital to Analog downloading Question ?

"Arny Krueger" <arnyk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "bob" <nabob33@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Apr 9, 6:36 pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
>>> Except that it has never been proven that people with
>>> normal hearing hear music all that differently. Anyway,
>>> it doesn't really matter whether it sounds different to
>>> each of us. The point is that the sound of real, live
>>> music played in real space will always sound the same
>>> way to YOU.
>>
>> No, it doesn't. Live music sounds different to me, every
>> time I hear it. I've heard the same instrument played by
>> the same musician in five different halls. It never
>> sounds quite the same. But perhaps my hearing perception
>> is just more refined than most. :)
>
> This is so true. I get to hear the same groups singing and playing the 
> same
> groups in different rooms, and its a vastly different experience. In
many
> cases I get to move around while the groups are rehearsing and in some 
> cases
> even while they are performing. There are plenty of differences.
>
> I've also measured the transfer function from the center of a
performance
> space to various locations in that space, and of course they are all
> different, and all highly non-flat.

Isn't it marvelous, therefore, that with all the variety the human brain
is 
rarely fooled into mistaking reproduced sound from live music.  Which 
suggests why comparing components to our "gestalt recollection" of what 
makes music sound "live" is a better standard than comparing two pieces of

"sound".