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Post Subject: The Feel of Live MusicPosted by Paul S on: 2/9/2020
Understood, and part of the reason I keep putting it in quotes. But much of hi-fi is "as if", isn't it? Getting back to harpsichord, for instance, it is amazing how noisy the instruments themselves are, yet one seldom hears/senses that via recordings. I think there are many "aspects"" of the sound of Music that are typically missed or they are glossed over by hi-fi. It has been noted on these pages that it sounds best to widen the frequency extremes, high and low, at the same time, as qualitative improvements to each seems to make the other more "natural". I don't really "understand" this, but I say, whatever "works". Again, you know what you're listening for, or you will know it when you hear it. I't's not so much "pressure" in this case as it is a sort of "foundation" that provides a "backdrop" that allows other things to become more plain. I noticed this years ago when listening to Debussy's La Mer with my big amps: the roiling orchestra became a chorus of voices with different textures. I love textures, and pretty sure I sense them with my skin. too; certainly I feel and/or react to them that way.
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