In Reply to: Is your dislike of violins the recorded or the natural sound? posted by John C. - Aussie on April 23, 2004 at 21:23:18:
Massed strings are one of the most-difficult things to reproduce properly on an audio system, and they don't even sound that great in a sound-reinforced hall. But I've never heard massed strings sound bad in an *unamplified* hall. (And I've attended several hundred concerts during my lifetime.) Note that massed strings sounding bad is often due to a bad recording. In fact, it almost never sounds exactly right when digitized, regardless of how good the playback system is otherwise.
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