> > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 09:51:58 -0700 (PDT) > From: Robert Greene <gre...@math.ucla.edu> > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale > To: Surround Sound discussion group <sursound@music.vt.edu> > Message-ID: <alpine.lnx.2.00.1105030948180.30...@walnut.math.ucla.edu> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > Here is a post that makes sense in the real world. > Of course it is intriguing to work out how > to create the impression of a mosquito circling around > your head. But it is really not important musically. > > What is wrong with stereo? > 1 It is all in front > 2 It is too LITTLE. Real orchestras are 15 meters or so wide, or more. > And concerthalls are huge compared to home listening rooms. > > What counts for music, real concert music as opposed to music > constructed for surround(which is a small art form to say the least) > is to get it to surround you are far as ambience is concerned > and to get it to sound LARGE and as if in a large place- > preferrably the large place in which it actually occurred. > > And this is pretty much all that counts to my mind. > > Unfortunately, I have yet to hear any domestic system > that solved the large size problem. Surrounded yes, orchestra > 15 meters across, not really > > Robert
I agree with all that. I would only add that depth and height are part of that perception, the stuff from behind is almost irrelevant. And in referring to height I am not thinking about sound sources from above (there are very few of those in any music I would particularly like to listen to anyway :) but more about the fact that even solo instruments do not radiate as point sources (or even planar sources) towards the listener. The difference between a piano recording with a soundfield mic (not TM) played periphonically and only horizontally is astounding; the change is of coloration in the instrument. Musicians notice this immediately, others tend to hear the stuff coming from behind.... Geoffrey _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
