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For quite a while I have been spinning the idea of “ambience”, broadly speaking, as it relates to hi-fi. One closely related idea I am stuck on is “how much of what sort of ambience is correct” for given music that is “played back”? It has seemed to me that if there is ambience encoded in a CD or LP, then it is what it is, in terms of frequencies and how loud these cues are relative to the other relevant information “encoded in the disc” that is played back by one’s system during a given encoded musical performance. However, as many have discovered, different systems produce different sounds when playing the same source material, and differences certainly include ambience. One thing brought home to me recently is that LF ambience might not be all that loud compared to other aural cues, and any attempts to “bring up” ambience cues can interfere with the Musical Exposition as a whole, for any of several reasons, including a system’s topological limitations. Likewise with any attempts to “elevate details”, including audiophile efforts to create or enhance transparency or “soundstage”, which efforts are generally accomplished by messing with relative frequencies SPL and/or playing with “phase” in order to create something regardless of what is or is not “encoded in the recording in question”. In my own case, the presence of LF ambience at any time means to me the “the system will do it”. From there, for myself, it becomes a matter of enabling best case recordings and living with recordings that - for whatever reason – do not have “good ambience”.>>

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