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Adding reverb to hi-fi
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 |
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Adding reverb to hi-fi
"Anahata" wrote in message ... 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 |
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