On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:40:28AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
An acoustic instrument interacts with the space you
hear it in in ways that
no stereo playback with common point sources is ever going to capture.
Indeed. And where that matters, it is the sound engineeer's job
to try and capture at least some of that magic, even if can't be
reproduced correctly.
An electrical instrument, whether analog like the Moog
Model D or digital
like Pianoteq can't do this: it never generates ANY sound at all except via
some amplified speaker system. So it is entirely reasonable to think that
you will always hear the same thing when you play a recording (analog or
digital) of the instrument over the same playback system that you first
heard it on.
There is even no way to tell how it should sound, except when the
original amp / speaker system is considered part of the instrument.
Ciao,
--
FA