At 21:48 18/04/2012, Robert Greene wrote:
It is interesting how this more or less obvious point-
that localizing discrete sources and localizing all the(often multiple(
reflections that make up the whole spatial impression would be
one supposes related--has escapted the popular press especially
of the "High End" ilk.
They are all wound up about "soundstage" versus "image"
and claim eg that Blumlein stereo does image but it is spaced omni that
does soundstage and so on.
And then there are those who clain that ORTF gives the best of all
possible worlds, whereas for me, who prefers Blumlein, yet enjoys the
best of spaced omni recordings (eg. Columbia Masterworks c. 1960 --
Walter/CSO and Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky, or Decca/London --
Wilkinson, etc), ORTF is just an unstable blur.
At 22:07 18/04/2012, umashankar mantravadi wrote:
a stereo recording done from the 'best seat' is distant and overly
reverberant. done with a first order A format and even
approximately decoded to an eight speaker system, the reverberation
is natural (the recording as whole sounds like it did on location.)
I havent had the experience of eight loudspeakers, but I agree with
four. This gives the lie to those who believe in "putting the
microphones where it sounds best to their ears" -- in my opinion, a
recipe for disaster if ever there was one.
David
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