cliveb;626161 Wrote: > While I am aware that there are some fairly well understood studio > tricks that do manipulate this illusion (like Q-sound and Holophonics), > I reckon "holographic imaging" is probably as much to do with the > listener's state of mind as it is the sound field. Anecdote follows... > > Just once in my life (and I mean, just the once) I was listening to the > stereo at home and heard the band in front of me in a totally believable > and sharply focussed 3D image - where you are convinced you could walk > up and tap the trombone player on the shoulder. I don't deny that it > was a truly magical moment, but the fact it only ever happened once > suggests to me that the recording and playback system had little to do > with it. > > The ironic thing is that this was when listening to a vinyl LP (a > grossly inaccurate medium), played back over a pair of Linn Isobariks > (a speaker well known for its *lack* of pin-sharp imaging > capabilities).
I've had a similar experience and bizarrely it was also with 'Bariks (which "image" in a most unconventional way - they used to remind me of Sonab Omnis) ... I also had it once in a hi-fi shop (Laskys!) with a pair of a Thorens 166 deck and Kef Celeste's (no idea what the rest of the system was) on stands in the middle of the shop floor...I just happened to be walking past when I heard a sax emerge "from nowhere". The speakers were probably wired out of phase :-) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87051 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
