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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The Absolute Sound of Audio Idiocy.
Post Subject: A consistent medium?Posted by guy sergeant on: 8/7/2008
There are times when a photograph, however well taken, is not enough. The contemporary British artist Lucien Freud paints portraits that tell more about the scene and the subject than perhaps a photograph ever could. This interpretation somehow conveys more of the sitter and their surroundings although upon close inspection there are colours and textures in the paint that could never have been there on the skin of the model. I suspect that this might be more analagous to the kind of sound representation that Romy feels an audio system should re-create. Whether this kind of 'lens' can be held in front of all music and convey the enough of the depth of its meaning regardless of genre is perhaps questionable. Just as Freud's technique might not be applied to and convey the impact of a bridge, a church or a landscape as well as some other representative means.
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