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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The open project: a lateral cross-injection.
Post Subject: Wood for the treesPosted by decoud on: 4/1/2013
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Is it not strange that we are so fixated on spatial separation in sound? Instruments in an orchestra are spatially separated because you can't have one musician sitting in another's lap, not because the music demands it. Music is intrinsically time- not space-varying. So insisting on spatial separation is an insistence on reproducing an aspect of performance that is incidental to the essence of the music: in an ideal world you would not have it.
Of course there *are* known frequency/space interactions in human audio perception: for example, people in whom brain damage causes an inability to attend to the left of visual space tend also to be poor in attending to low frequencies. So perhaps this is the mechanism these devices are trying to exploit.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site