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Re: playback level

Subject: Re: playback level
From: "Scott Fraser" scottbfraser
Date: Tue Aug 13, 2013 9:11 am ((PDT))
< If this sounds like an artificiality, the whole recording and playback
process is artificial, from windshield to loudspeaker cone. >

Yes it is, & in this context 'artificial' is not a pejorative term. It's al=
l artifice, all an illusion. So is a painting, or a photograph, or motion p=
icture, or video, which can also provide a pleasing aesthetic experience, b=
ut which are not at all the same thing as being there.

Scott Fraser








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