Petrushka
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By live, I assume no electrified or amplified instruments or voices.I have a question for you: Let's say you go to a live concert and you find out it's being recorded. You really like the concert, and wait for the recording to come on the market.
When that recording come on the market, what to you want it to sound like? Do you want it to sound like 1) the concert where you were present, or do you possibly want it to sound like 2) something different, sort of like a retouched photograph?
If you want it to sound just like what you heard when you were there, how is that done without well-engineered equipment?
If you want it to sound "retouched", isn't that done deliberately, as in choices made by recording industry personnel? Whether you agree with their choices or not, doesn't that also take well-engineered equipment? If not, how could they rely on their equipment to consistently give a certain desired result?
Whether you like the end result or not is beside the point ... the equipment does what it is designed to do.
What you may not like, therefore, is the set of choices that the recording industry personnel made. If those don't sound good to your ears, blame the people ... not the equipment.
Jim
One other thing, unrelated to the above: I have a set of Woodstock CDs that claim to be unenhanced, and as close as possible to what went to the speakers at the concert. The official albums were mastered for the movies, and are “improved”.
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