Re: Digital to Analog downloading Question ?

"bob" <nabob33@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 12, 10:13 am, "Arny Krueger" <ar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Sonnova" <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Yet we can always tell live from canned - from any of
>>> those seats. That's why live music played in real space
>>> is the one absolute reference in audio

>> Except that that live music played in real space is not
>> just one thing. It is as many different things there are
>> seats in the auditorium and on stage.

> That's why calling it an "absolute reference" is
> nonsensical. It isn't absolute.

Agreed.

I would expect that an absolute standard would be just one thing. An 
absolute length standard would be a certain length, not a large number of 
different lengths that were equally valid.

> It's really a subjective standard, based (let us hope) on
> objective experiences.

Please explain what an objective experience is.

> And being subjective, it is
> subject to a whole lot of influences (including,
> ironically, our experiences of recorded music!).

One thing that facilitates a degree of objectivity is comparison to a
fixed 
standard. For example, by picking a reference location, I can form
opinions 
about how the sound at other locations varies from it.