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Jim Lesurf wrote:
If you have no clue what a violin or any other instrument sounds like,
how would you decide if what you hear from a CD is 'fidelity'? Ditto for
the sound of a broadcast from a given hall?

It's one reason why well recorded male speech is a very good test of a
speaker, etc. Especially if you can have the same person speaking live.
Everyone has heard a bloke speak for real. But not that many a solo Strad
close to in an average room. ;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW
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