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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 141603" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Infocomm???Ivan, could I get you to set up a stereo system with Danley speakers about 1/2 mile apart and a 1/4 mile away... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /> (how big is that sweet spot?)Sound reinforcement is pretty sensible and mostly mono.. Many people attach mystical significance to stereo as a playback system. It&#039;s mostly a cheap psychoacoustic trick, where the two speakers fool listeners into believing there is actual spatial information in the playback. The human brain is complicit in supporting the trickery, since we are wired to make sense of random data, fitting the inputs to our version of reality.&nbsp; Stereo is more than twice as good as mono for home entertainment, but we quickly get into diminishing returns. The L-C-R+surround is very effective for movie mixes that use a center dialog channel, and surround efx channel. Once we accept that stereo is fundamentally compromised (2D playback of a 3D phenomenon) and an imperfect system, we can approach this with some perspective. While opinions vary.JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 141603, member: 126"] Re: Infocomm??? Ivan, could I get you to set up a stereo system with Danley speakers about 1/2 mile apart and a 1/4 mile away... :-) (how big is that sweet spot?) Sound reinforcement is pretty sensible and mostly mono.. Many people attach mystical significance to stereo as a playback system. It's mostly a cheap psychoacoustic trick, where the two speakers fool listeners into believing there is actual spatial information in the playback. The human brain is complicit in supporting the trickery, since we are wired to make sense of random data, fitting the inputs to our version of reality. Stereo is more than twice as good as mono for home entertainment, but we quickly get into diminishing returns. The L-C-R+surround is very effective for movie mixes that use a center dialog channel, and surround efx channel. Once we accept that stereo is fundamentally compromised (2D playback of a 3D phenomenon) and an imperfect system, we can approach this with some perspective. While opinions vary. JR [/QUOTE]

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