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<!-- #thumb --> <p>Perhaps the best audio experience you could have would be to drag your stereo system to the original concert hall where a particular recording was made, setup on the same stage and play the recording back. *You would be sitting in your favorite seat in the concert hall and the sound would be about as close as you could come to reproducing what originally occurred.</p>
<p>Your stereo system has been placed on the stage and you’re in the hall it was recorded in. *When you close your eyes you can sense the size of the hall, hear that you are in a large space, and when the music starts to play it is obvious to you it is playing inside this large space.</p>
<p>What this means to you is the removal of what I described yesterday as listening to music though a window – and not being in the same space as the music.</p>
<p>As part of my <a title="The thing about skeptics" href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/skeptics/11023/">thought problem</a> I realized that nothing you can do to the music coming out of your speakers will have any affect on the space you are in. *This is a really important point so let me expand on this for a moment with an analogy. *If you are in a car and you want to change the interior of the cabin – perhaps make it bigger, softer seats – there’s nothing you can do to the engine of that car to make the changes you want. *To change the inside of the car’s cabin <span>you must change the space you are in</span>.</p>
<p>This simple, obvious truth was a revelation to me at the time. *I assumed all along that whatever I wanted to do to make a stereo system sound live would have to be done in the playback chain – the amps, speakers, CD player etc. *It never occurred to me that this was a fool’s errand until I figured out it is impossible to convince yourself into believing you are in a live venue unless you can change the space you are in to match that of the venue itself. *Period, end of story.</p>
<p>That set a lot of wheels in motion.</p>
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<p>Your stereo system has been placed on the stage and you’re in the hall it was recorded in. *When you close your eyes you can sense the size of the hall, hear that you are in a large space, and when the music starts to play it is obvious to you it is playing inside this large space.</p>
<p>What this means to you is the removal of what I described yesterday as listening to music though a window – and not being in the same space as the music.</p>
<p>As part of my <a title="The thing about skeptics" href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/skeptics/11023/">thought problem</a> I realized that nothing you can do to the music coming out of your speakers will have any affect on the space you are in. *This is a really important point so let me expand on this for a moment with an analogy. *If you are in a car and you want to change the interior of the cabin – perhaps make it bigger, softer seats – there’s nothing you can do to the engine of that car to make the changes you want. *To change the inside of the car’s cabin <span>you must change the space you are in</span>.</p>
<p>This simple, obvious truth was a revelation to me at the time. *I assumed all along that whatever I wanted to do to make a stereo system sound live would have to be done in the playback chain – the amps, speakers, CD player etc. *It never occurred to me that this was a fool’s errand until I figured out it is impossible to convince yourself into believing you are in a live venue unless you can change the space you are in to match that of the venue itself. *Period, end of story.</p>
<p>That set a lot of wheels in motion.</p>
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