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   From: MrT@home   
      
   "Bill Graham"  wrote in message   
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   > >> Yes. To me, the first step in "true stereo" is to buy a decent   
   > >> headset. Then, you have to drive each earpiece with two totally   
   > >> seperated channels of sound.   
   > >   
   > > That's not stereo, that's binaural.  Different idea altogether.   
   >   
   > Oh. Well then, I don't know the difference. To me true stereo would be   
   what   
   > you normally hear. IOW, if you put a dummy seated front and center in   
   > Carneige Hall, and put a microphone in his left ear and record whatever   
   that   
   > mic picks up on the "left" channel. and another mike in his right ear, and   
   > record that on the "right" channel, and then deliver those two channels to   
   > my ears via two transmission channels and my stereo headset, then I am   
   > getting as near as is possible what I would be hearing were I to fly to   
   New   
   > York and buy a ticket to Carneigy Hall and sit front and center for the   
   real   
   > performance. And to me, it doesn't get any better than this. If this isn't   
   > "true stereo" then what is?   
      
      
   Dummy head binaural recordings have been done for decades, but never really   
   caught on. I don't think the average classical music listener wants to use   
   headphones all the time, and dummy head recordings don't work well with   
   normal speakers, or pop music production methods.   
   (Sort of like 3D movies that have been done for half a century, and they are   
   still trying to push the idea as something new. But wearing glasses is still   
   the same drawback for many, whether colored, polarised or LCD shutter)   
      
      
   MrT.   
      
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