Re: Re: Noise Pollution

[Walter Knapp <>]

Lang Elliott wrote:
> 
> While stereo may sound better when played-back properly on a stereo system,
> I doubt that a stereo signal allows for that much more "mental processing"
> than monaural, simply because most of the noise pollution will be in both
> channels anyway.

Most noise pollution has a direction, just as the calls do. If you
provide a stereo field, this direction is what we can process. They
will, for instance hear that the frog is stage center, and the diesel
irrigation pump is way off stage left. In mono the frog and the pump
will occupy the same mental and acoustic space.

So, yes, it may be in both channels, but not the same, which is what
stereo is all about.

Walt



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