For a half century, the crucial interaction between recording engineer and monitor loudspeakers during two-channel stereophonic recording has not been resolved, leaving the engineer to cope with uncertainties. However, recent advances in defining and improving this loudspeaker-room-listener interface have finally allowed objectivity to inform and shape the engineer’s choices. The full potential of the two-channel stereo format is now accessible to the recording engineer, and in a room that is just as normal as most consumers’ rooms. The improved reproduction has also allowed a deeper understanding of the merits and limits of spaced and coincident/near-coincident microphone arrays. As a result of these and earlier observations, a four-microphone array was conceived which exploits natural hearing processes to achieve greater auditory realism from two loudspeakers. A number of insights have emerged from the experiments.

Authors: Barringer, Don; Linkwitz, Siegfried
Affiliations: Linkwitz Lab, Arlington, CA, USA; Linkwitz Lab, Corte Madera, CA, USA(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 126 (May 2009) Paper Number: 7671
Publication Date: May 1, 2009 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Recording, Reproduction, and Delivery
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