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RE: No need to apologize

Posted by BigguyinATL on May 17, 2012 at 13:43:06:
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.