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Mulitple point sources

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In Reply to: RE: A Challenger? posted by David Aiken on May 23, 2007 at 00:48:48

[The difference between using only 2 channels for stereo and "multi-channel stereo" is that you only have one sound source for each channel in plain 2 channel stereo. That will always give you better imaging and soundstaging than using more than 1 sound source for each channel.]

Not necassarily, this is getting complicated! Recently I was dropping off a taxi trip at a school and I heard music coming from inside the school. I knew instantly that this wasn't a recording, why because of the multiple point sources coming from the instruments. Not something you'll hear captured on any recording. So having multiple points source is not a bad thing, but where talking playback of a recorded event, totally different beast I guess.
Anyways basically I have 3 speakers to the left and 3 speakers on the right that are closely timbre matched. Now I play music at fairly high volume for this reason. Once the sound is interacting with the room, especially with a good recording all the speakers blend together and sound as one. It is very difficult to pinpoint the source direction coming from any one speaker, its just very wide.
I've been to live shows that are in good acoustic venues. My seat wasn't in the center but you can tell that music primarily comes from the stage but it is also bouncing off the walls and hitting you from all directions and immerses you in sound. My MC setup comes as close to reproducing a live venue as I can make it. I never heard a 2 speaker stereo do this, not that it couldn't in an ideal room setup.
I guess not everyone wants to hear a realistic reproduction every night at home. It's just too much unless your a fanatic. :)

Edits: 05/23/07 05/23/07

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RE: Mulitple point sources - David Aiken 23:41:58 05/23/07 (0)

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