Phil Leigh;684772 Wrote: > It is entirely a construct of ones brain. We are conditioned from an > early age to understand the 3-dimensional nature of our world and how > to "place" sounds within that space in order to understand how to > survive. In the real world we hear sound in 3 dimensions. Recorded > acoustics and replay chains have NO WAY of capturing and preserving > this dimensionality - even things like the Soundfield technology are > simply a good approximation. > > To ACCURATELY capture and reproduce 3 dimensional sound requires an > infinite number of microphones and an infinite number of replay > transducers. > > Everything we decide that we hear is an aural illusion created by our > brains as part of the general "making sense of the world and staying > sane" mechanisms we are born with.
Good . But there must be some parts of this "system" that is very similar in all humans, as some recordings and some dsp soundfields can reliably create this illusion for many people . So there must be some common techniques that the sound engineer can use to give these cues to the listener, especially in movie soundtracks . And counter to that there must be some no no things in both mixing and design of audio equipment that usually always ruins this illusion . My own ear brain "system" is damaged so I does not hear 3D in recordings as easily as when I was young, but real 3D is no problem . My left and right ear have different freq response due to more hearing damage in the right one . And I have also listened to a lots of hifi who produces 3D soundstage where there is none, it can be speakers with back firing treble units or similar arrangement . 3D soundstage is what many hifi users wants so no wonder that hifi producers wants to produce the effect even if it not in the recording at all. Given what phil just said, some recording are meant to have some dimensionality even if the real 3D relations can not be captured or reproduced some acoustical stereo microphone recordings do this very convincingly. And some records are very dry and does not add to this effect, these dry recordings should not sound "3D" in any way ? or. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93092 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
