Curt962;626134 Wrote: > The imaging thing is an interesting subject. Like many, I get to hear > lots of live local music. Small scale performances. Some acoustic, > some not. In almost ALL cases, "imaging" is vague at best, and often > non-existent. It's really a visual thing, and if you close your eyes > at a concert it can be very difficult to aurally locate one musician > amongst several nearly as accurately as you can with even a modest home > set up. If amplification/sound reinforcement is involved, then all bets > are off. We don't need to discuss the actual "sound"...which generally > would not pass muster with any audiophile. Even with a guitar, or a > horm 5 feet away...the sound is simply not detailed, or dynamic enough > to meet expectations for many. > > "Imaging" is a very cool ability of home audio, but not entirely > realistic. A form of hyper-realism where we expect our audio systems > to "blow away" reality, and the degree to which we outperform reality > is used as a measure of performance. As much as I enjoy > "imaging"...it leads me to believe that laser-like targeting of > instruments within an acoustic space is largely an artifact of > microphone technique, and studio production.
Indeed. Ignoring stuff like UHJ/Ambisonics and dummy-head techniques, all height/depth/width is an aural illusion that can be manipulated - or even conjured out of thin air - using clever mic and mixing/FX techniques. A simple crossed or spaced pair as often used for classical recording can ONLY create the lateral soundstage illusion. pin-sharp 3-dimensional Imaging as discussed ad nauseum in magazines and fora mostly doesn't exist in the real world and can't be accurately represented by only 2 "point sources". The key word being "accurately". -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87051 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
