Soulkeeper;630521 Wrote: > ... takes a concert hall, and a classical orchestra. > > Squeezing the acoustics of the whole room through the limitations of > any stereo system, will have a profound, negative effect on the music. > Trying to get a perfect representation of that, is like expecting a > camera to take a picture so good that you can walk around it and see > the scene from behind. Ain't gonna happen. At least not with today's > technology. > > Read about, for instance, the 'Soundfield microphone' > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundfield_microphone), or 'wave field > synthesis' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_field_synthesis) in > general, and what it can be used for. Consider its limitations, and at > the same time its superiority over the normal music recording > technologies that has generally been used to record the music albums in > our collections. > > Consider what playback equipment would be required to accurately > recreate wave field recordings. > > The difference between the recorded material that we have access to, > and the idealized, perfect acoustical illusion of presence, is so vast > it's hard to fathom.
+1 Indeed - and what makes Blumleins old trick so effective that it allows to even imagine depth and height :-) -- 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=87175 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
