In Reply to: If the original signal was coming from all directions... posted by Enophile on March 10, 2009 at 14:56:35:
yours is the most viable answer. The microphones are not trying to emulate the function of the human ear. It's function is to duplicate the experience of the instrument or voice performing in real time and space. Similarly a speaker seeks to emulate that performance in space, not what the human ear can hear. Since most sound is created in a 360 degree dispersion pattern, you would want a replication to be similar in its pattern.
Stu
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