Augustine Leudar wrote:
However I'm not sure I agree that our hearing cant tell the
difference between whether a sound is coming from one or several speakers
I try to be more precise.
If you have a normal 5.1 speaker setup around you and you have several
playback devices in your use, you can drive a mono sound to one of the
speakers and the listener will locate the sound into the direction of that
loudspeaker.
If you have a two channel stereo recording and you play it through the
FL and FR speakers, the listener will hear a stereo image in front of him.
If you have a discrete 5.1 recording, you can play it back through the 5.1
setup and the localization will work according to that.
If you have a B-Format recording, you can decode it for example to a
horizontal layout and use the four "corner" speakers. Again,
localization will
occur as we know it does.
Now - you can hit Play on all of these players at the same time and the
listener
will hear a mix of your recordings regardless of their format of origin.
This is
what I mean by that "the hearing doesn't know" about the reproduction
system.
From what you have written before, I have understood that the above is
exactly what
you have been doing, using discrete speakers for sharp imaging.
Some people think that you need to route _all of the sounds_ through the
same
decoder and that would reduce the localization of pinpointed phantom
sources.
You don't need to do that, you can feed the amplifier of a certain
loudspeaker from
two or several playback sources.
Eero
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