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In Reply to: RE: Curious posted by John Atkinson on November 24, 2015 at 08:02:28
For me, the vertical image perspective of the sound field created by the performers and concert hall is really no different from localizing a bird's location high in a tree or that if a jet six miles up.Perhaps I am overly sensitive to this aspect of the sound field. I find "listening down" to a small box speaker like hearing miniature musicians playing from their doll house sized hall.
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> I find "listening down" to a small box speaker like hearing miniature
> musicians playing from their doll house sized hall.
That's a fair comment. But there is no height information deliberately
captured or encoded in a conventional stereo recording. (A true binaural
recording, made with a anatomically correct dummy head, is a different matter.)
Unless you are talking about the fact that the acoustic centers of a pair
of panel speakers will be higher than that of a pair of minimonitors, the
only way that a stereo recording can give the illusion of image height is
if there are response variations either in the recording or in the system
that mimic the effect of the pinnae on higher-placed sources.
This was very effectively demonstrated in a recording Bob Katz made
for a Chesky Records test CD in the early 1990s.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
> there is no height information deliberately captured or encoded in a
> conventional stereo recording.
One exception: with a pure-Blumlein, amplitude-stereo recording, the
directions of the reflections of the sound sources from the floor and
other boundaries will be preserved. So it is possible that these will
be interpreted by the brain of the listener as corresponding to height.
However, the incidence of such recordings is close to zero.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Agree Vertical imaging is very important , I think Chesky did produce a disc to test vertical height. A recording famous for height is Belafonte live at carnegie hall , he is above the musicians on the stage. Box Speakers with tilted baffles will have vertical height imaging issues , not all point source speakers Suffer from vertical issues nor will they suffer from big mouth sound like some large panels, or shout like horns ..
Choose your poison .....
Go Rossi ......
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