[Deputy Dumbya Dawg[_7_]]

"Anahata" wrote in message
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William Sommerwerck wrote:
the reverb (natural or added) in
recordings, being low level in nature and most audible when
the music program stops, is the first sonic component to
become masked by the reproduction rooms own sound.


Unless the room is unusually -- or pathologically --
reverberant, this is
not so. The average room's decay time is considerably
shorter than the
reverb time of most recordings, and is incapable of masking
it.

In terms of pure decibel levels, yes, but I think this is an
area where the brains's perception mechanism plays an
important part. If the room's acoustic is superimposed on
the recording's reverb, the brain's auditory processing get
a confused muddle of sound that it knows cannot coprrespond
to a real physical space. Remove the listening room sound,
and if the recorded sound included the natural reverb of a
real room, suddenly you can hear the "shape" of that room
and everything becomes more realistic.

Just a theory, to try to explain DDD's observation.

Anahata

Mission accomplished in the best of ways.

thanks

dawg