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Consider the concert venue sound system as you would a particular guitar or the mic that was used for a vocal -- the concert venue sound system is a choice of instrument, and choice of "voice" and other capabilities.
It is the job of a reproductive system to pass that information to you without further editing or coloration. So yes, all choices or colorations in the original, should ideally be passed on through your system. The perfect system will sound like the music heard as presented through the JBL array.
Because there are JBL characteristics in the recording, that in no way gives any JBL product a head start on at accurately recreating the concert experience in your home -- except for one potentially very important variable: dynamic contrast.
Very high efficiency speakers, maybe 95 dB/1 watt or much higher, will sound more dynamic than is possible with 87 dB/1watt speakers -- but 87 dB/1 watt is more normal in good hifi due to the in-general tradeoff between distortion and frequency response vs. sheer efficiency.
BTW, by "live" recording mode, do you mean a DSP program, like in a car stereo or AV receiver? If so, that form of signal manipulation might create an effect you like, but has nothing to do with the characteristics of the JBL speaker array at the concert venue. It is a purposeful distortion of the original in order to create a to-some-people desirable effect.
If i go to a live concert and Im hearing JBL array used as sound system will my home speaker reproduce the coloration of the JBL system if there is a “live” recording made?
Consider the concert venue sound system as you would a particular guitar or the mic that was used for a vocal -- the concert venue sound system is a choice of instrument, and choice of "voice" and other capabilities.
It is the job of a reproductive system to pass that information to you without further editing or coloration. So yes, all choices or colorations in the original, should ideally be passed on through your system. The perfect system will sound like the music heard as presented through the JBL array.
Because there are JBL characteristics in the recording, that in no way gives any JBL product a head start on at accurately recreating the concert experience in your home -- except for one potentially very important variable: dynamic contrast.
Very high efficiency speakers, maybe 95 dB/1 watt or much higher, will sound more dynamic than is possible with 87 dB/1watt speakers -- but 87 dB/1 watt is more normal in good hifi due to the in-general tradeoff between distortion and frequency response vs. sheer efficiency.
BTW, by "live" recording mode, do you mean a DSP program, like in a car stereo or AV receiver? If so, that form of signal manipulation might create an effect you like, but has nothing to do with the characteristics of the JBL speaker array at the concert venue. It is a purposeful distortion of the original in order to create a to-some-people desirable effect.
If i go to a live concert and Im hearing JBL array used as sound system will my home speaker reproduce the coloration of the JBL system if there is a “live” recording made?