Difficulty: Easy
Average Score: 82%
Once it has been recorded in the field and then brought into the studio, a sound is completely out of context. Typically, recorded sound is presented in stereo. In order to create the illusions of depth and movement, an engineer needs to do a great deal of processing, mixing, and editing to make the sounds translate from one medium (the natural world) to another (artificial spaces). This process is hampered by the fact that the elaborate equipment we humans have developed for capturing sounds is limited and replicates our world poorly and in far fewer dimensions than we have been conned into believing.

The author suggests that 'we have been conned into believing' (line 9) which of the following?

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