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   Message 40,198 of 41,683   
   Dick Pierce to Bill Graham   
   Re: dBFS   
   25 Nov 10 08:15:29   
   
   XPost: rec.audio.pro, comp.dsp   
   From: dpierce@cartchunk.org   
      
   Bill Graham wrote:   
   > Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >> Bill Graham  wrote:   
   >>> 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?   
      
   Scott already told you, it's binaural.   
      
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