Some of the articles I'd read in some magazine or other (copies available if you know Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman), stated some equipment designers were paying extraordinarily close attention to maintaining the phase relationships between channels and between voltage and current, as signal passed through a system. Claims were made that doing so improved the accuracy of the reproduced sound.
I heard stories in the early 1980s of people standing around rooms, dropping a set of keys onto a glass coffee table and recording it, then everyone else closing their eyes while someone made them guess if the next sound they heard sound was recorded or live. Folklore to people like me, but gospel to some audiophiles. Peter Tarver > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Javor > [mailto:ken.ja...@emccompliance.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 17:32 > > A very simple and inexpensive means of arranging staging is > to introduce > delays between left and right channels such that the sound > appears to be > coming from a particular direction. This is much easier to > accomplish with > headphones than loudspeakers, but it's the same principle. > I've seen a > convincing demonstration at the US Army Aeromedical > Research Lab (USAARL), > where something like five different radios can be going at > once and a > helicopter crew have to be able to intelligently respond in a > crisis > situation, and what people normally do in a situation like > that where they > can't pay attention to everyone is they zero in on one > conversation and > ignore the others, and to do that we use directionality. > Originally there > was none and the headphones could be blaring all channels > at once, and the > crew would simply turn off he radios they didn't want to > hear, which wasn't > good. By introducing specific delays for each radio, the > various radios > could be made to sound as if one conversation was from > 12:00, another at > 3:00 another at 6:00 and so on. That allowed the crew to > mentally focus in > on the conversation of interest and tune out the others > temporarily. But > that is all software and digital circuitry: no fancy audiophile > equipment > necessary. > > Ken Javor > Phone: (256) 650-5261 > > > > From: Peter Tarver <ptar...@enphaseenergy.com> > > Reply-To: Peter Tarver <ptar...@enphaseenergy.com> > > Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 21:37:04 +0000 > > To: <EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> > > Conversation: [PSES] Fuses can affect performance other > than safety! > > Subject: Re: [PSES] Fuses can affect performance other > than safety! > > > > I have heard of and known a few audiophiles that go to > great lengths to have > > sound reproduced as accurately as possible and spend > enormous sums to > > accomplish that. > > > > The term that was most silly in my view was holography; > but I understood what > > was meant. The aforementioned audiophiles claim to > recreate the spatial > > relationship between the physical locations musical > instruments when recorded. > > The needs for recording and reproduction are entirely > impractical and don't > > seem achievable for simple stereophonics, so it seems on > the bovine > > scatological side of the olfactory sense. > > > > BUT, I have stood in and moved about a room that was > carefully put together. > > In one part of the room one instrument (say clarinet) > could be heard more > > distinctly than in other areas, and so on for other > instruments, giving the > > impression that one was moving from musician to > musician on a sound stage. > > > > Pretty clever, but outlandishly expensive. > > > > > > Peter Tarver > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Ken Javor > >> [mailto:ken.ja...@emccompliance.com] > >> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 19:55 > >> > >> Next, the terms are not entirely gibberish. They may be > >> unfamiliar to those not in the hi-fi hobby, but I can make > out > >> all but one of these terms: > >> > >> Sound staging means stereo separation. Or whatever > >> passes fro that in the age of five and six different > channels (I > >> haven't kept up with this stuff since it departed from two > >> channels). I don't know how a fuse aids or degrades > >> channel separation, but at least we can understand what > is > >> being claimed. > >> > > > > The information contained in this message may be > privileged and confidential. > > It is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to > whom it is > > addressed or by their designee. If the reader of this > message is not the > > intended recipient, you are on notice that any distribution > of this message, > > in any form, is strictly prohibited. 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