In Reply to: No need to apologize posted by geoffkait on May 17, 2012 at 12:53:33:
It is rare that the "environment" where the recording took place is "encoded" in the recoding you are replaying. Most recording are engineered from many signals recorded at different places and times, yet our minds still can recreate (Imagine) a real performance before us. A classic example is Hot August Night - Neil Diamond at the Greek Amphitheatre in LA. I can feel the concert - almost the same as when I was there - perhaps even better because my playback equipment is of higher fidelity than the venues. But the recording was made from a separate 32 to 16 to 2 track mixdown.
Or take Natale Cole - in duet with here father Nat King Cole singing "Unfogetable" - from recordings made 2 decades apart. In my basement they are there: Not ever real - Only imagined in my head from two somewhat correlated voltage signals. Heyser called the voltage signals "Flatland" - a 2 dimensional world. Our mind's observations from a host of inputs (some of them - & maybe not the the most important - are the pressure signal at our ears) create the multidimensional space and time event we enjoy in stereo reproduction.
Certainly not holography - but maybe something of the scale of 3-D movies like Avatar.
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
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- RE: No need to apologize - BigguyinATL 13:43:06 05/17/12 (48)
- RE: No need to apologize - geoffkait 13:58:48 05/17/12 (47)
- RE: You need to get a does of reality - BigguyinATL 10:07:02 05/18/12 (23)
- You're wasting your time... - Presto 08:56:35 05/23/12 (19)
- RE: You're wasting your time... - geoffkait 11:08:50 05/23/12 (18)
- And there it is. - Presto 14:16:12 05/23/12 (17)
- That willing suspension of disbelief - Tony Lauck 18:22:56 05/23/12 (16)
- The idea that the - Presto 08:50:37 05/24/12 (15)
- RE: The idea that the - Tony Lauck 08:02:15 05/25/12 (14)
- RE: The idea that the - Presto 09:16:38 05/25/12 (13)
- RE: The idea that the - Tony Lauck 09:38:04 05/25/12 (12)
- RE: The idea that the - Presto 10:13:36 05/25/12 (11)
- RE: The idea that the - Tony Lauck 10:39:34 05/25/12 (10)
- Try - rp1@surfnetusa.com 23:01:08 06/27/12 (0)
- RE: The idea that the - Presto 09:15:04 05/28/12 (3)
- RE: The idea that the - Tony Lauck 13:21:09 05/28/12 (2)
- RE: The idea that the - Presto 09:11:38 06/05/12 (1)
- RE: The idea that the - Tony Lauck 10:20:19 06/05/12 (0)
- RE: The idea that the - tomservo 12:00:30 05/25/12 (4)
- "Breakfast in the Field" you say? - E-Stat 08:28:35 05/27/12 (3)
- RE: "Breakfast in the Field" you say? - tomservo 16:31:18 05/27/12 (1)
- RE: "Breakfast in the Field" you say? - E-Stat 17:32:14 05/27/12 (0)
- RE: "Breakfast in the Field" you say? - geoffkait 08:32:28 05/27/12 (0)
- Hopefully you're not suggesting your reality - geoffkait 12:39:05 05/18/12 (2)
- RE: exactly as I was saying - BigguyinATL 07:54:32 05/21/12 (1)
- Uh.... - geoffkait 08:05:16 05/21/12 (0)
- RE: No need to apologize - rick_m 07:57:26 05/18/12 (22)
- conflict between accuracy and impressive - unclestu 17:29:30 05/18/12 (14)
- There are exceptions... - E-Stat 08:41:10 05/27/12 (0)
- RE: conflict between accuracy and impressive - Presto 09:09:47 05/23/12 (0)
- RE: conflict between accuracy and impressive - Tony Lauck 15:58:44 05/21/12 (1)
- Kavi's - unclestu 17:58:30 05/23/12 (0)
- RE: conflict between accuracy and impressive - rick_m 21:35:14 05/18/12 (9)
- RE: conflict between accuracy and impressive - unclestu 15:54:16 05/21/12 (4)
- RE: conflict between accuracy and impressive - rick_m 19:43:16 05/21/12 (3)
- Ah.... - unclestu 16:58:13 05/22/12 (2)
- RE: Ah.... - rick_m 18:26:54 05/22/12 (1)
- We've - unclestu 18:15:23 05/23/12 (0)
- RE: conflict between accuracy and impressive - geoffkait 22:08:22 05/18/12 (3)
- RE: Belafomte at Carnegie Hall CD - rick_m 07:45:58 05/19/12 (2)
- RE: Belafomte at Carnegie Hall CD - geoffkait 08:21:36 05/19/12 (1)
- RE: Belafomte at Carnegie Hall CD - rick_m 10:44:43 05/19/12 (0)
- RE: No need to apologize - BigguyinATL 10:11:33 05/18/12 (0)
- RE: Stereo is more about selling gear and recordings - geoffkait 08:48:59 05/18/12 (5)
- RE: Stereo is more about selling gear and recordings - rick_m 10:14:43 05/18/12 (4)
- RE: Stereo is more about selling gear and recordings - Tony Lauck 15:27:30 05/21/12 (1)
- RE: Stereo is more about selling gear and recordings - rick_m 16:28:07 05/21/12 (0)
- RE: Stereo is more about selling gear and recordings - geoffkait 16:45:26 05/18/12 (1)
- RE: Stereo is more about selling gear and recordings - rick_m 17:10:27 05/18/12 (0)