I stumbled across a short article on the Stereophile website today concerned with the psychoacoustic perception of recording quality. I'd like to share and get your thoughts on the conclusion that recordings generally perceived as the most faithful to the original performance are often the ones that have undergone the most post-processing. It's just that the engineers got all the ingredients exactly right during recording, mixing, and mastering to produce something that is perceived as "most lifelike," but never actually occurred in the physical world. Here's a link to the article ...
On Assessing Sonic Illusions
On Assessing Sonic Illusions