[Scott[_6_]]

On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 6:58:28 PM UTC-7, Peter Wieck wrote:
On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 6:45:38 PM UTC-4, Gary Eickmeier wrote:
es, spread evenly across the region between the speakers.
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But will this high direct field from those two points in space sound th=
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same as the live sound that was recorded? Why or why not?
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Gary:
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AR did this for years, and years, and years, using their 3 and 3a speaker=
s, and had some of the finest golden-ears of the industry agreeing that the=
transition from speaker to live was seamless and transparent. This is exac=
tly the wrong suggestion to make as there are any number of speakers out th=
ere capable of that task. ONE THING!! They never would have been placed per=
your suggestion, that would have been an invitation to failure. I suggest =
you go back in time and look for an AR white paper on how to place speakers=
in any given room - all other things being equal. The surprises you will d=
iscover:
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a) Speakers are not to be placed on the short wall of a room.
b) Speakers are placed some distance from a wall, corner or from the floo=
r based on a number of factors determined by the room, its size and the nat=
ure of the furnishings. This *WILL* vary.=20
c) No sort of additional 'enhancement' or 'deadening' or absorption is ne=
cessary. In other words, pretty basic placement per some pretty basic princ=
iples is all that is necessary for excellent performance and a clean sound-=
stage (which is definitely larger than a human head in height, width and de=
pth).=20
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I think you are confused by the size of your listening venue and the addi=
tional complexities that adds to the process.=20
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Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

Pretty sure AR did this with a string quartet, always in an overly reverber=
ant room with a lot of people witnessing the comaprison and...musicians tha=
t did a great job of keeping up the visual cues of musicians playing when t=
hey would switch to playback. One deos not hear much if any seperation of i=
nstruments with a string quartet from any substantial distance particularly=
in an overly reverberant room. So it would not be the least bit surprising=
that a single speaker would image quite in a similar fashion, especially w=
ith the visual cues in place of actual musicians playing.