(...) The number one contributor to a "you are there" illusion is the reverberant field generated by the loudspeakers and the rooms reflections. No you will not get exactly what's on the recording, you will be adding the reactions with the room. This is about creating the illusion however and not about fidelity.
Jack,
IMHO, the illusion can and must be part of the recording. The sound engineers do not know exactly what will be your system and your room, but they manipulate the recording in a way it will create the illusion in a typical situation (having room reflections) . There is some variance, but once you properly optimize the conditions to create the illusion (what I call fine tuning the system and room) most of your recordings sound much better. I consider that the illusion is the ultimate fidelity. Surely, it will depend on your previous experience.
Most of the illusion is not only spatial, but also connected with properties connected with a proper balance of microdynamics and macrodynamics (apologies for those who hate these terms).
Yup.Conventional stereo is they are here, binaural is you are there,
I often find that adding the visual accomplishes much but that sometimes it is more confining than the audio.I differ from Tom. If we want o be transferred there we are going to have to add visual to the equation. In the meantime stereo does it fine for me.
Yup and there are many possible adjuvents. I recall listening to a broadcast of Lohengrin when I had a high fever and was being bombarded with drugs. It was magnificent and, subjectively, lasted barely a half hour.A great live recording, complete with carefully crafted illusions, and a very good bourbon. You are there is mostly about suspension of disbelief.
I know a number of headphone listeners who do their listening with subwoofers.I disagree on many counts chiefly that you ain't there if all the stimulus you're getting is from your ears. Gotta feel it baby.
Ah but free yourself from the limitation of only two channels and the reverberant field can be that of the original recording site. That's where multichannel triumphs in bringing you there.The number one contributor to a "you are there" illusion is the reverberant field generated by the loudspeakers and the rooms reflections. No you will not get exactly what's on the recording, you will be adding the reactions with the room. This is about creating the illusion however and not about fidelity.
The same can be said for soundstaging in general. You can not measure a soundstage in the signal however you can map out the acoustical pressure within the space where the two channels sum and cancel.
Still you are not going to get the "you are there" experience from the best recording in say, a very dead room and a low output system.
Depends on how good the bourbon is...
Tim
or the expectation bias
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