On Saturday, November 2, 2013 6:20:26 AM UTC-7, Bob Lombard wrote:
On 11/1/2013 5:40 PM, Audio_Empire wrote:
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On Friday, November 1, 2013 6:34:51 AM UTC-7, Bob Lombard wrote:
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On 10/31/2013 6:49 PM, Audio_Empire wrote:
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On Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:10:11 AM UTC-7, Scott wrote:
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You can not accurately reproduce an original sound field other than =
to accurately reproduce the original event in the original space.
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Isn't that sort of like saying that in order to "reproduce" an origin=
al sound field, one would need an
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infinite number of channels? I believe that Bell Labs came to that co=
nclusion back in the 1930's.
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Bell Labs in the 1930s? How much to their opinions on technology have
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to do with the 2nd decade of the 21st C.?
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Yep, I'm suggesting that reactionary thinking may be present here. 
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You are joking, right, Bob? The principles of acoustics and music repro=
duction haven't changed at all in the ensuing years, just the technology us=
ed to capture and reproduce music. After all, it was Bell Labs in the 1930'=
s who came-up with the model for two-channel stereo that we still use today=
..
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The 'principles' of acoustics haven't changed, but the technology has=20
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made things possible now that weren't in the 30s. This may be the wrong=
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forum to mention Dolby Pro Logic... but I did anyway.
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I think you may be missing the point. the research done by Bell Labs and Bl=
umlein was what set the whole idea of stereo recording and playback in moti=
on. The technology you speak of does not change the fact. It's all still bu=
ilt on the principles that research discovered. No one has invented any new=
technology that has allowed us to literally recreate an original sound fie=
ld. All that technology you are referring to has been designed and built to=
work with the principles of stereo recording as established by Bell Labs a=
nd Blumlein. No technology so far has made anything possible that the resea=
rch back then did not already determine was possible and not possible when =
it comes to literally reproducing original sound fields.