Just fall back on fundamental. Everything has got its own fundamental. The sad thing about sound reproduction is that it is never easy to be comprehened as what you can have for photography. But, to me, they always share a lot of similarities, I mean to the extent of reproduction of what have been captured beforehand. I do not challenge into the technicality of the gears as I am not a designer for any electrical or photographic equipment.
For photography, there is always the concept of format. There are different formats of negative that one uses for taking picture. The common ones is 35mm negative. But for most professional photographer, they will go for bigger formats such as 645 or 120. Why? The reason is they need to blow up the picture. For smaller format, it is well known for the fact that there is a limitation in the amount of light energy that can be captured with a smaller lens design together with a smaller and compact area available, the blown up picture (many times of the size of the negative)will not be perfect in reproducing the object which is captured under such condition. The technical terms concerning the reproduction are chromatical correction, aberration etc.. A set of well defined terminology has also been set up such as resolution, curvature of field, depth of field, tonal balance, colour saturation, contrast etc. All these words would allow one to discuss properly the subject we are aiming for. So it is also well known that though 35mm is not a perfect format but it is so widely used by all consumers in the world. The simple reason is that most of us will not need to magnify the photo and the development of the negative into 3R or 4R size of photo is good enough for our collection. With reputable company such as Leica, you can hardly spot any major flaw in the picture you have taken and you may even think that the picture quality is on par with those picture taken with larger format camera under a non-blown-up situation. Now for sound reproduction, there isn't clear to correlate the sound energy with the size and the type of accoustic of the room that sound reproduction is needed.
Another point to be taken note as in photo. The contrast and resolution and the lens design will cause different results in micro and macro details of the picture. It is apparent when you start to compare lenses produced by those Japanese and with that by Leica. The colour tone and the saturation of the photo and even the three dimensional effect from Leica will smoke it. So when one discuss sound reproduction on micro details, you have to becareful not just to focus in one subject but to remember all the sounds reproduced and heard are inter-related. This is what I call the energy distribution for each frequency throughout the whole sound spectrum of the reproduction must be able to reproduce those which was recorded and captured in the first place. If it is not the case, than I believe the reproduction will be so called dull or dark, yin or yang, terms which the reviewers have got the likes to use.
Overall it is still the acoustic and the size of the room versus the combination of the equipment you put together. And not to have the merry go round situation in looking and hunting for details as it is just part of the whole sound spectrum in the reproduction chain.
For photography, there is always the concept of format. There are different formats of negative that one uses for taking picture. The common ones is 35mm negative. But for most professional photographer, they will go for bigger formats such as 645 or 120. Why? The reason is they need to blow up the picture. For smaller format, it is well known for the fact that there is a limitation in the amount of light energy that can be captured with a smaller lens design together with a smaller and compact area available, the blown up picture (many times of the size of the negative)will not be perfect in reproducing the object which is captured under such condition. The technical terms concerning the reproduction are chromatical correction, aberration etc.. A set of well defined terminology has also been set up such as resolution, curvature of field, depth of field, tonal balance, colour saturation, contrast etc. All these words would allow one to discuss properly the subject we are aiming for. So it is also well known that though 35mm is not a perfect format but it is so widely used by all consumers in the world. The simple reason is that most of us will not need to magnify the photo and the development of the negative into 3R or 4R size of photo is good enough for our collection. With reputable company such as Leica, you can hardly spot any major flaw in the picture you have taken and you may even think that the picture quality is on par with those picture taken with larger format camera under a non-blown-up situation. Now for sound reproduction, there isn't clear to correlate the sound energy with the size and the type of accoustic of the room that sound reproduction is needed.
Another point to be taken note as in photo. The contrast and resolution and the lens design will cause different results in micro and macro details of the picture. It is apparent when you start to compare lenses produced by those Japanese and with that by Leica. The colour tone and the saturation of the photo and even the three dimensional effect from Leica will smoke it. So when one discuss sound reproduction on micro details, you have to becareful not just to focus in one subject but to remember all the sounds reproduced and heard are inter-related. This is what I call the energy distribution for each frequency throughout the whole sound spectrum of the reproduction must be able to reproduce those which was recorded and captured in the first place. If it is not the case, than I believe the reproduction will be so called dull or dark, yin or yang, terms which the reviewers have got the likes to use.
Overall it is still the acoustic and the size of the room versus the combination of the equipment you put together. And not to have the merry go round situation in looking and hunting for details as it is just part of the whole sound spectrum in the reproduction chain.