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In Reply to: RE: True, but IF you had subscribed for YEARS... posted by josh358 on September 18, 2015 at 09:24:22
I pick number 7.
I've heard what is probably the best Ambiophonic system in the world and it was very interesting, a most unusual effect. But it didn't sound like hearing live music to me. It surely took a lot of effort (not to mention money) to bring this concept to fruition and my congratulations go out to Ralph. I've met him and he is very smart and also very likeable and generous.
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I think it's a big, big part of it. The other is the effect of listening room acoustics.
Just listening to a binaural recording on headphones is a good way of hearing what we're missing, and even binaural recordings are pretty seriously flawed because of HRTF mismatch and the absence of head movement.
I think we have to go beyond ambiphonics and other multichannel systems to crosstalk cancellation, wave field synthesis, dynamic HRTF compensation, and similar techniques.
Full wave field synthesis isn't yet economical but I think we could do a pretty good job with existing multitrack masters and lateral wave field synthesis with some cheats around the edges. Something I'd love to work on myself but I'm not sure how to commercialize it given the absence of a consumer channel for suitable program material. You could build the box and the speakers, but what would people play on it? The record companies would have to be willing to provide their masters in audio object form, e.g., in the Atmos format, and the recording venue specs for convolving reverb (or identification of a suitable one, no reason you couldn't use a standard library, even pick a hall yourself).
In the meantime, I'd settle for some uncompressed, high bit rate two- or three-mic recordings -- played through line source dipoles they're spectacular and put most commercial recordings to shame.
Most if not all my Direct to disc recordings delivers this pretty well and if digitally , Reference recordings CD's deliver big too, got a couple of Dave Wilson CD's which are fantastic in the way they capture the church , Choir and Organ ...
Regards
Edits: 09/19/15
Yes, they are some fine audiophile recordings out there. If only there were good recordings of everything!
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