What is a good tweak?

[E-Stat]

... I don't think the likes of the Berlin Philharmoniker, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philladelphia Syymphony Orchestra, the NY Philharmonic, The Boston Symphony, Cleveland or Chicago have much to worry about any time soon.

No worry at all since the LSO has performed six recordings with Telarc and Cleveland, about twenty. I mention the ASO only because that is where I live and have had direct experience with the recording process.

It is absurd and totally unrealistic to imagine that recording engineers would not use EVERY available means at their disposal to optimize their products regardless of how their methods offend the sensibilities of audiophiles whose naive view of the world and their idealized notion of how things should be done would preclude the most powerful tools at their disposal.

Your opinion noted. And summarily dismissed by quite a few engineers (who are not "audiophiles" themselves)

The fact that you cannot hear the results of their manipulations and tweaking audibly is testimony to the enormous degree of the skill they have used.

If you are referring to the use of large numbers of microphones, compression, etc. then speak for yourself.

I'm sure that they would just as soon set their equipment down, run the tape, download it to the final product, and go home but the state of the art today is far from allowing them to do that if they want to compete with other people using these capabilities to the fullest.

Honestly tell me the same once your comments are supported by experience with these recordings rather than using mere speculation. Hand waving gestures alone are meaningless.

rw