This report contains the results of a small-scale comparative listening study, conducted on December 09th, 2020, at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Stuttgart. It aimed to two interrelated research questions: (1) Does the perception of recorded performances in general change when played back on different gramophones? (2) If yes, to what extent are performed violin gestures affected as well? Three gramophone setups and a concert hall setting were simulated by digitally convolving a single input signal (a 2019 reenactment of Fritz Kreislers 1911 “Love's Sorrow“ recording) with their authentic impulse responses and played back consecutively to the participants, a homogenous group of trained music students. It was found that the participants interpreted changing playback devices as actual changes in performance practice, giving some new evidence to support Mark Katz' (1999 et seq.) theorem of the “phonograph effect“ from a psychoacoustical point of view.

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V1.2 includes the sound examples presented in this study.