REWIRE YOURSELF
It’s not that I want to make you nervous about the stereo system you’ve spent your hard earned money on, but in all probability the sound coming out of your stereo isn’t anywhere near what you should actually be hearing, or even close to what’s actually been recorded on the record or tape you’re playing.
REWIRE YOURSELF
The Sound Evolution
Richard Robinson
It’s not that I want to make you nervous about the stereo system you’ve spent your hard earned money on, but in all probability the sound coming out of your stereo isn’t anywhere near what you should actually be hearing, or even close to what’s actually been recorded on the record or tape you’re playing.
A harsh assessment of current audio technology, but the truth is that most of the stereo components available to music listeners tend to color the sound (read “distort” for “color”) instead of reproducing it faithfully. Most turntables, tape players, preamplifiers, amplifiers and speakers impose conscious limitations on prerecorded sound.
In fact, the very term “high fidelity” remains an anachronism, since sound technology has yet to reach a point where completely accurate recording and reproduction of sound is possible. The process by which sound is captured, duplicated and then reproduced as an electronic signal by electro-mechanical devices makes true “fidelity” practically impossible.