In Reply to: Julian Hirsch at least... posted by mkuller on March 3, 2011 at 15:25:28:
The concept of the sound stage had, I think, a huge positive effect on speaker design. Before HP called attention to it, we treated stereo as essentially a lateral phenomenon, despite the fact that the enhanced reproduction of depth is discussed in Blumlein's original patent. Such imaging as occurred was almost accidental, what with enclosure diffraction, asymmetrical driver arrangements, poor speaker placement and acoustics, and bad polar response. And yet when I first heard it, imperfectly realized in a friend's KLH-9's, I realized right away that an entire dimension had been missing from my listening. There followed a period of frantic and ultimately failed experimentation in an attempt to get my own speakers, a pair of AR-11's, to do the same trick.
So much for the measurements of the time! It was an important lesson in what counts.
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- RE: Julian Hirsch at least... - Tony Lauck 17:20:33 03/03/11 (4)
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- RE: Julian Hirsch at least... - Tony Lauck 10:19:48 03/04/11 (2)
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- Nothing original here. This started in the 1930's. - Tony Lauck 10:42:07 03/04/11 (2)
- Ahh, J. Peter Moncrieff.... - mkuller 11:00:55 03/04/11 (1)
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