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psychoacoustics

In an audience listening position, standard recording techniques give a signal, which when reproduced with standard stereo, sounds far too muddy, wet and reflective.

Your brain is very clever and does sophisticated source estimation and of course has trained itself against the reflections from your outer ear, so the perceived psychological experience is surprisingly not what the physical sound pressure, reduced to two scalar signals.

So, stereo is an enormously engineered illusion that is a weak simulation of the actual experience.

Microphones are closer to the source than typical listening position, and thus they experience less high frequency dissipation than a natural live listening position would.

Also, many microphones are well above a orchestra or live acoustic band. I've heard that violins sound screechy from above, but normal from ground level. They're directional.

As gordon holt said, Down With Flat!!!!


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