On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:57:33PM +0100, dw wrote: > The idea of listening for pleasure to bass sounds without overtones or > transients conjures up an image of a twitcher tracking down a rare, > three legged sparrow. The public just don't understand..
It should be clear from the context that the little experiment I reported on was not done for pleasure but to test if such sounds could be localised or not when reproduced correctly. That test in turn was not done for pleasure, but only after some people claimed (wrongly and without any convincing argumentation) that one could not localise such sounds. Consider the following two statements: 1. Correct directional reproduction of very low frequencies is not essential as in almost all real-life signals there will be overtones or other higher frequency energy associated with the LF source, and these will provide adequate localisation. 2. Correct directional reproduction of very low frequencies is not necessary as we can't determine their direction anyway. I could probably agree with (1). But not with (2). Now you could argue that if (1) is true then it becomes irrelevant if (2) is correct or not. That is no longer the case if (2) is put forward to justify the defects of some reproduction system, as was done. Used as such it is a false and misleading argument. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
