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Post Subject: Live At The Village GatePosted by Paul S on: 7/27/2021
Much clearer with the drawings; thanks again, Romy. So, if I listen to my old jazz LPs recorded live at The Village Gate with the DSP-Z9 on that setting I would be getting a double dose of ambience, along with the extra stuff the recording engineers threw in to make the LP sound "realistic"? As to your question about the standardized sound field processing, the answer is no, of course. Not to mention "normal" stereo is a proprietary mix-down in the first place, and it typically includes "artistic" "cross pollination" of right and left channels to make swell stereo. Also, digital sources are no more standardized, end to end, than analog sources. What I'm saying is, we might never get to the bottom of all this stuff, and we'll probably have to do what we do get done by ear, with more or less random efforts, at least for a while, until we can establish "what matters" amongst varying variables, until we can consistently implement and predict acceptable results.
For those trying this at home, Romy has a zillion input/output, fully buffered, active Placette pre-amp, with a pass-through, for keeping output impedance, gain and isolation where one needs it to be to do this. YMMV. Any "pro-type" mixer board should do, as well; but plenty of home stereo pre-amps will not do it.
So far, the more I learn about this "system", the less I know, apart from "it works". Kinda like the PP3000...
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