[BC] The real thing....

[Thomas G. Osenkowsky]

I would expect as much. The transducers employed to
record the instruments do not have the same sensitivities
over a frequency range as do your ears. They are located
on or very near the instruments, have a relatively flat
response, unlike your ears.

You are listening at a greater distance and also hear the effects
of the transmission paths i.e. echo/reverb which have different
colorations on different frequencies of sounds.

The environment in which you are listening most likely
does not match that of the venue in which you heard the
live performance. Then there are the variables associated with
the transducers which reproduce the sound (speakers,
headphones) as well as damping factor in the amplifier and
so on.

Tom Osenkowsky, CPBE

> I can truthfully say that no recording I have ever heard has been able to
> approach the quality of sound heard in these live performances, no matter
> where I was sitting -- which has ranged from the front row, center on the
> main floor (Chicago) to the side of the last row in the highest balcony
> (Vienna).