Hi tesseract, very welcome!
I tend to think of the room dimensions much like looking at a drawing board: XYZ = Width, Depth, Height. But yes, the Height component is more of a whim, coming from our hearing mechanism, and speaker-room interaction.
I wonder though, if a loudspeaker has a sloping front bafle -and the drivers are not paralel to the floor|ceiling axis- that would probably increase the ratio of vertical to horizontal reflections and possibly the perception of height in a recording. By what factor, I can not say, just making assumptions here...
dBe, thanks for your interest, looking forward to your sketch!
rongon, thanks for the input, interestin you should mention an orchestral recording! You, and all, know how S.Linkwitz has a strong position on soundstage, or the "auditory scene", as he names it. In his
"Hearing spatial detail" paper, he includes this interesting scaled diagram of how the recording of an orchestra is expected to sound in his room...:
I attempted a re-scale showing how the same orchestra might be placed if full sized and if the walls in
SL's room would actually suddently "drop". And I feel I may have been rather restrained in upscaling .... Keeping
S.L.'s assumption that the "
... The phantom source will ... essentially not be closer than the distance to the real sources of sound, the two loudspeakers... ", I have placed the first violin at the position of the left loudspeaker : )
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The question therefore arises, is there any kind of room treatment -be that mere absorption/diffusion panels, or better yet overall room design and construction including splayed walls, wideband resonators and similar goodies- that will deliver that much sence of spaciousness inside a small -by measure of the original event- actual living room ? Pray tell, especially if you have achieved this in your listening room :unbelievable: :clap: , or even witnessed it elsewhere : |
Or should we all aggree that listening to the full depth and breadth of an orchestra is to be reserved for either the consert room or for similarly huge living spaces ?
Best,
Charlie
PS. Please note, I am not including the loudness capabilities of the stereo system itself in the equasion. Quoting
SL, "
. . . Distance and size of the auditory scene are playback volume dependent. The auditory scene moves closer with increasing volume, it becomes larger and more detailed . . ." So, for the benefit of this discussion, let's take as a given that the speakers can deliver 105-110 dB to the listening seat (~ what the front rows in a concert hall may experience? ) without compression.
EDIT : just realized, I typed S.R. instead of S.L. for Siegfried Linkwitz... sorry about that :sad:
also, forgot to thank tesseract back for his kind words, double sorry :sad: :sad: