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If a fine instrument is played well its complex and delicate tonal quality produces a strong emotional response in the listener, the effect is pleasurable and it is an important part of the live music experience.
However the same intensity of feeling rarely occurs when reproduced music is played. Why does this aspect of the sound become lost and what parts of the hi-fi system are responsible for losing it?
One clue is the fact that old 78 rpm recordings acoustically recorded and replayed preserve this emotional response in listeners, despite the limited bandwidth and signal-to-noise. So sound fidelity in the conventional sense seems unconnected with the emotional stimulus. The action of the electronics (specifically the amplifiers) is the real culprit.
