Why Can A Mic Record Most Audio That Sounds Exactly As I Hear It, But When It Records Music From A Speaker, That Sounds Different?
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Because the microphone is NOT recording everything EXACTLY as you hear it, the playback system does not playback everything EXACTLY as the microphone recorded it, and your ear does not hear things exactly like your microphone.
The sound sources and the room also play a huge part. The microphone is capturing the sound arriving at one specific point in the room. So unless the microphone is is right at your ear, then the sound is traveling a different distance and bouncing off of walls it never did in the recording. It’s a completely different environment.
Everytime you run some sort of an analog signal through a system it becomes a little more distorted. This is why when you record a recording of a recording of a recording it sounds so bad.
Perhaps a better question is: how can the get the sound to sound as similar as they do given all the difficulties in doing so?
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