[Harry Lavo]

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On May 19, 7:49 pm, Kalman Rubinson wrote:
On 19 May 2009 16:39:28 GMT, "
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On May 18, 6:50 pm, wrote:
On May 18, 2:24 pm, " wrote:

I never hear any music coming from my
sides or rear when seated in a hall.

What are you talking about? Of course you hear sound coming from the
rear and sides. What do you think happens when sound waves hitwalls?
They don't just evaporate.

The reason you THINK all the sound is coming from the front is because
your eyes are open, and they are telling you that's where the sound is
coming from. But, as usual, your eyes are deceiving you.

The trick of good MC is to get thesideand rear speakers to mimic the
reflections you'd hear in the hall.

"A trick not at all well performed. Low level sounds (in actual
performance) are heard in the side and rear channels as being so
called "reflections" when in fact they couldn't have been and aren't.
It appears as a phoney gimmick, or "trick"; something like playing a 2
CH recording in a car and hearing the sound coming from all the
surround speakers.

Then, either you have been listening to the wrong recordings or you
have been listening to an improperly set up system.

If one turns off the front L & R channels in a proper set-up using the
right recordings, and hears all musical passages at equal but lower
volume, this is NOT what one hears in a hall. The few halls with which
I'm familiar don't even have microphones placed to capture side and
rear channels, at least not at any of the live performances I've
attended which made their way to MC rtecordings.


I'm sorry, but if you could "turn off" the front of the hall, you might very
well hear something similar, but with more echo. In a welll recorded
classical surround disk, you will get the same thing. It is only when you
turn it up too loud that you hear something resembling the instruments
themselves.