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Posted by regreene (R ) on July 30, 2005 at 09:10:56

In Reply to: REG I have just one question ... posted by Teresa on July 30, 2005 at 00:43:39:

I doubt that people really hear stereo imaging all that differently on the whole.(There are a small number of people,however, who do not hear stereo at all--they hear what is really there, namely two separate speakers. These people tend to like mono!)

Let me try to approach this seriously: The ear/brain WANTS to locate sounds. It is a basic instinct. Almost anything that presents any locational information at all, even internally somewhat contradictory information will have the ear/brain giving a "best guess" type of image. It is just a survivial mechanism. It is best to use even fragemntary information to guess where the tiger is than to make no estimate of the tiger at all.

On the other hand, I really find it hard to believe that a person who has listened carefully to Blumlein recordings, which actually image, does not hear that there is a big difference from the spaced omnis. (Try the pure Blumlein Waterlily Mahler 5).

There are Mercuries I really like--Starker, Janis's Rachmaninoff 3--but the fact that I like them for musical reasons does not obscure the indequacies of the sound. Take the Rach 3. The piano is almsot as big as the orchestra! This is simply not a sound one could hear live--at any location at all. The vast blurry piano backed up by a not much larger(geometrically) orchestra where the first violins come out of the left speaker,etc.--it is just not real.

As to Telarc: nothing is anywhere very precisely. Big blurry sound always, no attacks, no location, no reality, not at all like the precise direct arrival sound followed by reflections and ambience of a real concert.

There is no accounting for tastes, but this sort of thing ,while one might like it, is most definitely not what real orchestras in real halls sound like.

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