Re: [ARSCLIST] Acostic playback

[Karl Miller <lyaa071@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Well, keep in mind that all that playback on a vintage acoustic machine
> can do is to provide an approximation of what a listener of the same era
> as the record might have heard...MORE OR LESS! Since little if anything
> was known about acoustics, the sound of each machine varied according
> to the characteristics of the diaphraghm, the tone arm and the playing
> horn as well as their dimensions (with the latter depending more on
> available space than anything). As well, the listening environment
> (i.e. size, shape and dimensions of the room, as well as its
> surfaces) would also affect the playback sound.

Which reminds me of the notion that the playback device in the acoustic
period could be considered the instrument, and that the dry acoustic was
desirable, since the listening area, as you mention above, would have
supplied the acoustic.

Karl