How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?”


We (or most of us) believe that it’s very difficult if not impossible to hear an exact representation of the the sound of a live performance on a recording.
The question is how much do you have to delude yourself into thinking it’s the real thing your listening to, to satisfy yourself.
To some it has to to be as close as possible. But others can make allowances for defects in the sound in order to enjoy the presentation.

‘How much do you need?

 

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I just enjoy the music and appreciate the strengths and feats of the system, whether they are realistic or doing something to make it more extravagant than real life...

I just let the music happen, and I'm not trying to figure out whether it sounds exactly the way it sounded alive... especially as even alive, it already sounds different when you change your seat. So, forcing "realism" or "holography" or "fidelity to mike feed" out of a recording is something that is superfluous to me. Human voice or instrument sound is not razor-sharp in real life: it's blooming and expansive. When the imaging is razor-sharp and confined, the equipment is doing serious processing, regardless the holographic end result....