opaqueice;177526 Wrote: > A lot of this depends on how the ear and brain do their direction > sensing - is it bassed on phase (unlikely), that the ear isn't a point > absorber and is sensitive to the direction of the sound(?), or simply > relative loudness and frequency content in each ear? If it's the last > I think at least in principle it's possible to simulate any sound in > any space, at least at the listening position in an anechoic (or > perfectly RC'ed) room. But otherwise it may be impossible even in > principle to do perfectly.
Kind of interesting to think about, I believe it is based on directivity as well as perceived loudness and frequency. The problem is reproducing the direct/reflected sound ratio from the original performance room. As another poster in this thread stated, real instruments aren't quite as pinpoint-directional. Theoretically this could be done with DRC software. You'd have to have a model of the original room along with a model of the playback room and alter the stereo image plus the EQ to get the playback mimicing the effect of the original room while compensating for the playback room at the same time. Not easy, and the "original room" correction would be different for each recorded piece. On a tangent, did you know that owls have one ear substantially lower than the other? This is in order to facilitate sensing the vertical position of sounds. I mention this because we should keep in mind how we perceive sound due to our biology: we get very accurate horizontal positioning cues from our stereoscopic, almost omnidirectional ears, all on a subconscious level. When we hear a sound to the left of us, we don't always realize that it's because only our left ear has perceived it, we just instantly know. And the stereo "mix" from both ears determines where we perceive sound to be: 80% left, 20% right, it's "almost all the way" left and if we need to look that way we can instantly locate the source of the sound. Our brains make these judgements subconsciously and very quickly. We're picking up on very subtle, subconscious clues that what we hear from speakers isn't exactly real. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32374 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
