That's right. I've always found it interesting that the 2 approaches - Blumlein's 'binaural' and the 'curtain of microphones/speakers' - wavefield synthesis, more or less - go back to 50's and the 30's. And we've ended up with the 3 channel compromise in 5.1 systems.
jim On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:11 PM, David Pickett <[email protected]> wrote: > At 17:10 30-03-16, Peter Lennox wrote: > > >Alan Blumlein at the EMI started with 30...35 degrees stereo stage > >with two loudspeakers. Remember, he was thinking about "binaural" not > >stereo sound. > > What Blumlein called "binaural" was not what we call "binaural", using > headphones -- it was his name for two loudspeaker stereo. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -- Jim Moses Technical Director/Lecturer Brown University Music Department and M.E.M.E. (Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20160330/2d06f273/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
