Re: Digital to Analog downloading Question ?

"Jenn" <jennconductsREMOVETHIS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <fu6cgp02j6c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Norman M. Schwartz" <nmsz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>>> If you listened to the microphone feed resulting from
>>>> live music and compared that to a good recording
>>>> derived from that feed, I bet that you would NOT be
>>>> able to distinguish live from recorded music.
>>>
>>> But the mic feed already isn't live, in the the context
>>> that I mean it. You're hearing it through a speaker, of
>>> course.  I believe that you are correct in your
>>> statement, but neither the mic feed nor the recording
>>> is "live".
>>
>> I think we all know that. It's my meaning  that
>> _*recording*_ itself can't approach live sound if *live*
>> hasn't been captured in the first place. How possibly
>> can a _recording_ of a trumpet be expected to sound live
>> if the information going into making any recording
>> doesn't sound LIVE in the first place?
>
> True enough.  Obviously, some recordings sound more live
> than others, and none are even close to perfect.

Avoiding loudspeakers and listening rooms are two powerful steps towards 
improving realism.