fyi

Why don't you give any information what this is about?

In case someone is interested:

?It?s about the human ear and the human brain, and understanding how the human ear perceives sound,?

Hey, I figured that out by clicking on the link.

John

I just deducted it from the subject line.

And what were you left with?

Drat! You got there ahead of me.

JDW

In rec.audio.pro John Larkin wrote: : Hey, I figured that out by clicking on the link.

I don't make it a habit of clicking links that I know absolutely nothing about.

(But it was clear that it pointed to a NY Times article.) Next to that, "fyi" and "Something interesting" is pure NON-information.

I'm sure he did the most scientific job, but he is preceded by Ralph Glasgal, with his "Ambiophonics" scheme (not to be confused with Ambisonics).

In crude form, I've tried this, using multiple consumer level ambience generators. These were once quite popular and sophisticated: the Sony ESD1000, ESD2000, the Yamaha DSP-A1 and RXV1, et al.

So I tried running two synthesizers simultaneously, with side speakers, in a narrow room, so that the stereo pair is closer than usual, and it has been a nice experience. I experienced a greatly enlarged sweet spot, which becomes a line. The room enlarges. Having never been to Boston Symphony, I have no idea whether my synthetic space resembles any real space, but it's fun -- especially with Jean Michel Jarre.

Bob Morein (310) 237-6511

These people must have attended a liberal school:

"But stereo had no real psychoacoustics. It created an artificial sense of space with a second track, but did so by dealing with only one variable ? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ loudness ? and enhanced human perception simply by suggesting that listeners ^^^^^^^^ separate their speakers. "

Apparently, they've never heard of phase or time of arrival of the signal.

Cheers! Rich

I've got Linux, which is inherently virus-proof, so it's no problem for me. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Back in my QST days, I read an article about simulating stereo for CW (Morse Code) operation, where they took a low-pass filter and sent its output to the left speaker, and a high-pass filter to a right speaker, and presumably, the effect was to give the illusion of your radio band spread out in front of you, low to high, and they said it made it really easy to zero in on a particular signal.

It sure sounds logical to me. :-)

Cheers! Rich

Wondering what you found interesting or learned from the article?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm thinking 90+ % of audio professionals have known that for some time.

Later... Ron Capik

Liar. AT best, the very most you "deduced" is that the article was about sound.

Goddamned cross-posting retards.

Where is the beef ?

Trying to sell as many speakers as possible ?

Trying to cancel out the listening room reflections in order to simulate an anechoic listening room ? It might be possible to do this for a single point in the room, but I do not understand, how this would be possible to cancel out the local reflections in at least two points about 20 cm from each other (ears) or actual in 5 cm radius spheres around these points. When a person tries to locate a sound source he/she will make unconscious head movements and the ears move accordingly. For exact listening experience, the air molecules should move in the same way (in 3D) around the listeners ear positions as they would have been in the original sound stage.

I have kicked out my 5:1 full spatial stereo equipment and returned to normal 2 channel stereo with 1 center medium tweeter.

It was a bad experience listening to a singer like sitting in midst of his throat.

No surround sound anymore.

w.

This article is thinly-disquised PR hype about the Audyssey system is a self-adjusting equalizer that is commonly incorporated into mid-fi and higher end receivers.

Example:

Techincally, its equalization and time delay auto-adjusted using a built-in computer and a cheap but reasonably flat microphone situatied at the listening postion.

One can find quite a bit of discussion about Audyssey on many HTML-based home theater forums.

It does seem to get a fair amount of favorable comment from many end-users and some reviewers based on personal experience. If it turned receivers into boat anchors, it wouldn't show up in as much equipment as it does.

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