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What is going on in my head?

DaveVoorhis said:
I've never been so insulted in my life.
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Well, very interesting. I certainly did not mean to insult you.

I do understand the desire for all individuals to appear unique in social situations. But quite honestly do you not appear to display the characteristics that I associate with"weird personage", perhaps more data would help me see the error of my perception.

For now I am convinced that you are conducting your interpersonal and extrapersonal life as a somewhat normal and rational person. After all, you are operational on a forum based web-site discussion system of subjects share by many people questioning the same basic realities using a common language and protocol with an apparent goal of communicating truth.

So sorry Dude, I can only offer up the conclusion that most probably you are quite normal (smile).

Feel free of course to convince me that I am wrong (another smile).

Otherwise, what is more important is how we can improve the audio illusion (two smiles).

Regards. Barry
 
One cannot help but wonder what the OP thinks of the deep vein of both research and practical application of binaural recording techniques, or, for that matter, of moderately sophisticated acoustic "tricks" such as Matt Polk's "Stereo Dimension Array" of the 1980s and 90s.
 
Well I like to give the benefit of the doubt with people brand new here as some innocently jump right into the deep end of the pool. Others however are clearly seen gearing up their trolling rig to the transom of their boat! Let it be known, we AK'ers are tough fish to catch!
 
DaveVoorhis said:
You've triggered me. I'm going to shelter in my safe place. I am a tender snowflake and I am melting.
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:rflmao:

While some music is decent through headphones, a lot of what I listen to you aren't experiencing it if you aren't feeling the low frequencies.
 
tyeeslayer said:
Perhaps

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Hahaha Perfect. Can help in the transport. You subversive Canadiens :thumbsup:
 
AustinAudio said:
As your ear is a reality device the headphone is an artificial input source which may, or may not, advance the illusion. With some electroinci wizardry the headphone can be more satisfying than speakers.
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Note: I'm speaking only for myself.
The only device I've heard that has made headphone sound that isn't in a straight line from one ear to the other is a Smyth Realiser. Otherwise the best any headphones and devices have done for me is to produce a "headstage". This is opposed to a soundstage which I regularly experience with speakers. OTOH, for me, even the Realiser isn't/wasn't as satisfying as speakers. Headphones are simply not visceral enough.

http://smyth-research.com/products.html
 
The thoughts about the time issue or temporal of recording are interesting. I have noticed that current recordings tend to have an absence of nature, such as the simpatico of the musician' creative act is missing because they are not there recording in person at the same time. What one creative musician does in isolated form any other creative musician, they don't humanistically interact.

Some of the instruments are not making sounds that really existed in space-time until play by the reproduction system, that is the are not reproduced mixing with other natural sounds in the air but are captured electronically, not aurally.

The soundscape sucks, that is there isn't any, because the spacial quality of multi-microphone recording provides additional phase based differences that create space. The sterile sound in the closed 'mic'ed, non stereo, reproductive process can not be covered by reverb alone.

I spent years recording music and I always asked the musicians before the session where they imagined this song was played, was it in a closet, smoke-filled bar, concert hall? What was the presentation space? This that knowledge I could figure out what the group felt it's listener should feel when listening,and as the engineer it was my job to craft that space. My job as a circuit designer now is to understand the the interactions between the dynamic elements of the music reproduction system, far more challenging than the recording side of the equation.

Recorded music when played back should be a cathartic experience, when it is, it is profound and mind boggling, truly a gift from the past, that is when it is a time machine. But mediocre recording practices and over production obliterate those feeling. The best recording I have ever hear were done with two microphones in intimated environments, designing circuits to harvest this rare sources from the past are the highest execution of the audio art.
 
AustinAudio said:
The thoughts about the time issue or temporal of recording are interesting. I have noticed that current recordings tend to have an absence of nature, such as the simpatico of the musician' creative act is missing because they are not there recording in person at the same time. What one creative musician does in isolated form any other creative musician, they don't humanistically interact.

Some of the instruments are not making sounds that really existed in space-time until play by the reproduction system, that is the are not reproduced mixing with other natural sounds in the air but are captured electronically, not aurally.

The soundscape sucks, that is there isn't any, because the spacial quality of multi-microphone recording provides additional phase based differences that create space. The sterile sound in the closed 'mic'ed, non stereo, reproductive process can not be covered by reverb alone.

I spent years recording music and I always asked the musicians before the session where they imagined this song was played, was it in a closet, smoke-filled bar, concert hall? What was the presentation space? This that knowledge I could figure out what the group felt it's listener should feel when listening,and as the engineer it was my job to craft that space. My job as a circuit designer now is to understand the the interactions between the dynamic elements of the music reproduction system, far more challenging than the recording side of the equation.

Recorded music when played back should be a cathartic experience, when it is, it is profound and mind boggling, truly a gift from the past, that is when it is a time machine. But mediocre recording practices and over production obliterate those feeling. The best recording I have ever hear were done with two microphones in intimated environments, designing circuits to harvest this rare sources from the past are the highest execution of the audio art.
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Indeed!
 
Well gents, all I know is that last night I enjoyed some really nice greens (lol) and when I put my head on my pillow and closed my eyes in my dark bedroom, I saw indescribably large geometric shapes that changed to all hues of beautiful colors.

I consciously imagined relaxing my eyes and mind (like those weird late '90's pics that had other pics hidden in them) and when I did, BAM! Colors and shapes.

Again, it was a combo of exceptional herb and some redneck type of transcendental meditation. I seem to remember humming some pleasant tune while all this was going on.
 
AA, I have carefully examined your POV and for the main part agree with your perspectives.

The attempt to enhance the sound introducing all the different aspects of the reproduction of the original source can and often does take away the natural end product. Then, on the receiving end you throw into the receiving audience with either HP's or the typical speaker set ups, with all the various degrees of gear trying to interpret the intended material in different environments...I can appreciate the slight problem you have in sound design.:)

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