Although I have done this many times before, I again put on a left right test track using RACE and two line source ESL speakers and I can rotate my head as much as my neck permits without detecting any noticeable shift in the localization of the voices at the extreme right and left. With two speakers if I stand up so I can rotate even more then the localization begins to shift but not all that much. But with both front and rear speakers engaged even this does not happen. Compared to earphone listening, the stage stays put with normal head rotation using this loudspeaker binaural method and head tracking is not required. In the concert hall or movie theater one does not rotate the head all that much so I fail to see the significance of a possible 2nd degree fault of XTC here. The question now is why is RACE XTC so robust that this rotation effect is not clearly evident especially with four (curved in this case) speakers. The answer has to be that the signal is the same at both ears despite appearances or that despite the differences present the brain still localizes normally. Ralph Glasgal www.ambiophonics.org
From: Fons Adriaensen <[email protected]> Imagine a XTC system reproducing someone speaking at say 60 degrees left. If I turn my head towards the virtual speaker I expect more or less the same signal in both ears. There's no way to achieve that with one ear almost facing the speakers and the other one turned away from them. Ciao, -- FA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110710/286b6ae2/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
