Garbage in garbage out for Hi-Fi but how about for record production

According for example to Linn, for Hi-Fi, the most important link in the reproduction chain is the one closest to the product.


For example:


Vinyl LP - turntable - tone arm - cartridge - cartridge preamplifier - power amplifier - loudspeaker - listening room acoustics - listener's brain


For record production an expert such as Alan Parsons emphasizes the importance of monitoring speakers while producing. If you don't know what you are listening how can you judge?


So again something very important on the other side (record production) is very close to the product ie the monitoring speaker?


Quicy Jones gives a great importance on Auratone 5C monitoring fullrange speakers for critical listening while producing. But also says how the song itself is most important. The song is on the other side of the production chain.


Is there something in common or not?


For example on production side there is a brain near the monitoring speaker, the ear, brain of the record producer. And near the song is the brain of the songwriter.


A microphone is near the brain of the singer. In fact studio acoustics are nearer to the brain of the singer. Singing sound form singer's mouth, air molecules of recording studio and intersection of tye sound waves with room boundaries, then the microphones.


A loudspeaker is near the brain of the listener. In fact the room acoustics are nearer to the brain of the listener.


So could it be that the most important links of the whole chain from songwriter's brain to listener's brain are those in close to a human brain?


Song (songwriter's brain)
Studio acoustics (singer's brain)
Studio monitoring speakers (producer's brain)
The record product (producer's brain)
The turntable for example (producer's brain)
Listening room acoustics (listener's brain)
Amplifiers ie mic pre, reproducing amp (the brain of their designer?)


Amplifier designer's brain participates somewhat indirectly in the chain.


Food for thought.