Originally Posted by MrMarbach
Bearing in mind that recordings of classical music are sometimes (not always) aiming at recreating the acoustic experience - and that M clearly subscribes to this philosophy - "faithful to the original sound" is often perfectly accurate (if by sound you mean "acoustic experience").

Anyone who has been involved in recording live music will tell you that this is a very real concept, although constantly a matter of opinion between professionals.

Yes, I agree with you, and had this in mind, as well as "faithful to what is on the disc" etc. Some of the points above amount to differences of terminology or semantics. I think many of us were saying the same thing. But I was not thinking of warm or fluffy [warm = overblown bass; fluffy = poor definition / imagery / sound stage?]

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