In Reply to: "...every bit of the audible signal." Good one, Scott! posted by rbolaw on March 16, 2017 at 19:03:14:
This basic fact is so important in understanding audio at it's most fundamental levels. Yes!!!! The original live music performance is a profoundly complex 4 dimensional waveform. It is impossible to capture and encode that waveform in it's entirety using microphones placed at points in that space and then reduce those 2 dimensional electrical signals into two or even five discrete 2 dimensional signals that will convert into acoustic waveforms at two or five speaker sources in an entirely unique seperate sound space (the listening room) and bare any real similarity to the original waveform. Not only is it not possible it isn't even what the designers of stereo and multichannel were trying to do. They are trying to use those microphone feeds to creat an aural illusion in the playback. Like watching 3D movies.
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- "perfectly reproducing a recording is not the same as perfectly capturing a live music performance" - Analog Scott 10:50:22 03/17/17 (0)