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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The open project: a lateral cross-injection.
Post Subject: My view.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/7/2013
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 steverino wrote:
I'm sorry Romy usually I follow your train of thought but I'm lost on this one. There is a spatial arrangement that is optimal for the musical content. I think we agree on that. Then there is the actual spatial arrangement whether live or mixed.  Then there is the audio system reproduction of that actual spatial information whether anechoic or reverberant. But you say that should not be used as an audio debugging tool? Because we can't map it precisely from the stage to the speakers..?? But wouldn't that issue be avoided by artificially mixed material? Or am I missing everything?
  
Well, what was saying that spatial capacity of playback has nothing to do with spatial arrangement that is optimal for the given musical content. You see, playback is brainless dead substance that has no knowledge or understanding of musical content or spatial need for played musical content. Playback has however own spatial capacity that has absolutely nothing to do with music you play. Pretend that we play on our playback ONLY test signals then you will see that different inhalations would demonstrate completely different spatial capacity. In my view when we talk/think about spatial capacity of playback we need to forget about spatial load of music and let the playback-only to do the spatial tricks only for sake of playback. We can talk to each other stories how clarinet could magnificently bind string sections located at opposite sides of orchestra but it will not help us to figure out why for instance Convergent Audio Technology preamplifiers, being fine preamplifier has problem to position vertical image properly. CAT preamps have that vertical parabolic curve which position violin section on right and left but mid image elevates vertically, and it look like it is not depending from acoustic system setup. Operating by musical categories it does not make sense. So I do feel that a playback has to be given some strictly audio test where spatial capacity would be validated. It might be playing some spatial y charged music where playback would demonstrate its ability to deal with it. Then the most interesting things happen: each playback has own way to deal with space. Pay attention: no one would argue with musical spatial information but we all would have different opinion and different experiences how our current or imaginary playbacks would deal with space. The interpolations by playback of the spatial factor has nothing to do with spatial intend in music and therefore I do not feel that it is possible to prove the importance of spatial character in audio by stating that live music has a lot of spatial intend.

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