Re: Miniature Pseudo-SASS Array

["Robin" robin_parmar_sound]

David Brinicombe wrote:

> Now someone tell me how you can hear the direction of a 200Hz sound,
> with wavelength 1.7met, with your ears at 170mm apart, and you will 
> know how our own ears hear stereo. :-)

Since the time difference from one ear to another is not significant enough at 
lower frequencies, we use the level difference instead. But I am pretty sure 
you know this. ;-)

Also significant is a factor almost everyone forgets, recordists too. Head 
movement plays a large part is localisation. We can move our head in a stereo 
field but NOT within a headphone, er, "field". And neither playback system 
replicates the experience of listening in a multi-source sound field, e.g. the 
original location.

Just one more reason why recordings can never replicate the richness of "being 
there". (Though fans of Ambisonics might disagree!)

-- Robin Parmar