You _can_ recreate a 3D wavefront "simulation" that gives you directional hearing impressions, even with as few as two speakers if they are able to create exact phased sounds. There is equipment like that for computer gaming.
However, there are two drawbacks: 1. This only works in a single place. If your head moves more than a few cm out of position you'll get severe interference and the opposite of good sound. 2. You can only do it with synthetically generated sound. Real life music recordings don't record the phase difference in wavefronts coming from different directions, not even in professional recordings using many microphones. These only record volume differences in different positions which is an entirely different animal. So no, from music recordings you can't recreate something like a 3D soundstage, at least not on purpose. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93092 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
