In Reply to: Relevant loudspeaker tests posted by BigguyinATL on July 9, 2014 at 10:26:07:
Rooms and loudspeakers are only part of the problem. Musical instruments and microphones are two other parts of it.With current "practical" technology, we cannot reproduce a musical instrument sound via a recording and subsequent reproduction system. It cannot happen.
Start with the source - a musical instrument. The sound is different at every position around the instrument. This sound is radiated into a room, which imparts its own aural signature. Couple that with the fact that every instrument has a different radiation pattern.
A microphone only picks up the direct sound of the instrument from one point in space, and picks up the room ambient sound, and imparts its own signature due to frequency-dependent and other characteristics. This then is "reproduced" through a single point via a loudspeaker which has a singular radiation pattern, and re-radiates the single-point sound into another room!
Given this, it's amazing that stereo systems sound as good as they do - even if they don't sound like real instruments!
:)
Edits: 07/11/14
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- RE: Relevant loudspeaker tests - Inmate51 13:05:49 07/11/14 (4)
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- Agreed... - mkuller 11:07:44 07/12/14 (0)