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In Reply to: I think that it is a parlor trick inside a parlor trick........ posted by viridian on March 4, 2015 at 08:00:26:
I first noticed the specific positioning of instruments in a Philadelphia Orchestra concert in the late 1950's as a teenager. I was sitting in row 3, center and was amazed at the specific imaging of all of the individual instruments and the size of the string sections, etc... This was a few years before I first heard stereo sound. Most recently at a live opera performance in a small house (The Barre Opera House) there was superb imaging of all the orchestral players as well as the singers. Of course, we had paid a premium for the best seats in the house.
There is no parlor trick if one listens to two channel recordings made in the classic Blumlein configuration, with the listener positioned with the classic 110 degree angle between speakers. Do not expect anything like this with studio recordings (which are indeed parlor tricks) or most multiple microphoned disasters with close-up microphones. These recordings can never deliver a realistic soundstage and are made this way so that junk playback systems will have clarity and so that incompetent microphone placement can be "fixed" in the mix after the expensive union musicians have departed.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: I think that it is a parlor trick inside a parlor trick........ - Tony Lauck 03/4/1512:39:14 03/4/15 (1)
- RE: thanks for pertinent observations [n.t.a.] - wangmr 23:05:47 03/4/15 (0)
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