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In the Forum: Audio For Dummies ™
In the Thread: Romy the Cat's Audio recommendation: the biggest bang for a back
Post Subject: Better RIPosted by Edgar= on: 9/7/2023
 Romy the Cat wrote:
First of all, let to address the elephant in the room: whatever additional DSP take place for reverberation or surrounds is applicable ONLY for reverberation and has no connection of any kind to the main channels. This is the key and we do not even discuss it.
I feel it is obvious by now, or at least should be, if there is any reverberation processing on your main channels, that is not "RI" as defined here. That is an explicit detail. Over the years Romy, I have implemented or at least experimented with many of your findings. "Creating sound in room" being one of the first and fundamental ones. If one wants the result one must closely follow the recipe. At least to begin with. There are many people that do audio and that are truely lost. They have no inner compass to direct their decisions. This thread will make no sense to those people mostly because they will not take the time to PROPERLY implement RI and learn for themselves the powerful psychological effect it can have. 
With regards to "better" if one were serious i suppose a reference would help. Theoretically might the best "processor" be, a mechanism in which your source material is transmitted and played through loudspeakers in the concert hall and then recorded  and played back (minus the source material, as in just the reverberation) through your rear channels? Would that be an "ideal" processor? Therefore if one processor were capable of recreating the sound of the "ideal" better than another, is it a better processor? Or would better be defined as one processor gives you more potent insight into the phrases of your material than another? 
Sticking with the food analogy, For me, RI is like seasoning. It is not the meal itself, but if used well, it will greatly enhance my experience of the meal. Also, I liked how you articulated it when you said  "Injected with surgical precision". That is a helpful way of thinking about it if one were to pursue implementing RI.
Ed

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