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In Reply to: RE: Totally different experiences--a stereo recording is a distinct art form posted by regmac on February 23, 2015 at 08:11:34:
The problem with homes is that in general the rooms are too small and one rarely has a situation where the ceiling is so high that the ear registers all the horizontal room reflections (for spatial localization) before the ceiling reflections interfere. That obviously is an issue with the room at The University of the South that now has Alexandria XLFs.
And the normal home has about 30 dB of background noise (refrigerator compressors, traffic noise, airplanes) anyway.
Believe it or not Bose was doing some research a few years back about "virtual reality" testing of room acoustics but IIRC to hear the effect your head had to be clamped in one place in a device that could remind one of something from an eye exam and the speakers were very close--as close as computer speakers.
I have NOT heard the technology JA did at CES that used ear-canal measurements to adjust the speakers' sound to the room's quirks. SP-BACCH?
All that said, at the end of the day the object of the game is first to fool the brain and then to win over the heart. Exhibit 1 being a bootleg recording of The Eric Whitacre Singers that is up on YT. The young lady thought she was taking a photograph but she started taking a movie, and so when she put the iPad back in her bag, its lens was blocked but the microphones heard enough.
I had a friend over and I played some DSD files for him and then some hi-res PCM and then some Red Book and just as a gas I played the YouTube off the internet, and when it was over, he looked at me and said that of everything I had played, the crappy YouTube of a bootleg made with the mics in a handbag had had the biggest impact on him.
So, at the end, the equipment is always a tool, and the slenderest knowledge of divine things trumps certainty about mundane things.
ATB,
JM
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Follow Ups
- Home, not likely. Dedicated facility? Perhaps. (Eric Whitacre YT--FANTASTIC!) - John Marks 09:20:13 02/23/15 (2)
- It's as much about mood as it is about accuracy - Bromo33333 14:24:53 02/24/15 (0)
- RE: Home, not likely. Dedicated facility? Perhaps. (Eric Whitacre YT--FANTASTIC!) - regmac 13:04:48 02/23/15 (0)
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