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Spaciousness and Localization in Listening Rooms and Their Effects on the Recording Technique

Low-frequency localization and spaciousness are altered by conventional loudspeakers and positions, especially in small (40 m(3) or less) listening rooms. Many common loudspeaker placements produce poor spaciousness and reduced low-frequency separation when excited by either coincident or pan-potted recordings. When this effect is corrected electronically by increasing separation at low frequencies, coincident microphone techniques produce superior sounding recordings in a wide variety of playback environments.

Author: Griesinger, David
Affiliation: David Griesinger Recordings, Cambridge, MA 02140, and Lexicon, Inc., Waltham, MA
JAES Volume 34 Issue 4 pp. 255-268; April 1986 Import into BibTeX

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