Do we really know what "Live" music sounds like?

jerryg:

I did not read the article, just responded your brief Cliff Notes of such.

DeKay

Do we really know what was heard in the recording studio? Mastering studio?

Not sure live performances/instruments are too helpful for end listeners building systems. While there are certainly benefits to hearing un-amplified live, there seems little gained in correlating the two. I guess he's alluding to the often used system evaluation, "that sounds live." 

His point: "....In short, you need to know what music sounds like if you're going to try to effectively reproduce it." I disagree. Maybe for recording engineers.

Make a search and read: the word to search for is "acoustic" the second word "psycho-acoustic"...

If you dont have any experience and fresh remembering about instrument timbre, if you dont learn how to perceive his micro-structure in space, how do you test by listening experiments your room?

Do you think like most that the sound comme from the gear in an immaculate conception OUT of ANY ROOM ?

His point: "....In short, you need to know what music sounds like if you’re going to try to effectively reproduce it." I disagree. Maybe for recording engineers.

 

The musicians may not know what it sounds like from various seats in the concert hall. Nor what it sounds like in venues they have not performed in. Nor concert musicians what it sounds like in a recording studio and vice versa. Nor musicians recorded in Abbey Road studios what it sounds like elsewhere.

But anyone who cares, has normal hearing capabilities, and listens knows what it sounds like at that time in that location with whatever the source may be.

Is that good enough to assume we do know what music sounds like? If we don’t, so what? I don’t know what it sounds like on Mars. Won’t let that bother me too much. Nor if someone else claiming golden ears tells me I don’t know what music sounds like.

The perception of timbre is not only the perception of a "sound" but  the perception of a  meaningful sound...

We were conditioned to perceive human voice for a million year....

This is all we need to create an audio room...